June 1


For example, by law a married woman is bound to her husband as long as he is alive, but if her husband dies, she is released from the law of marriage. Romans 7:2

The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments. The grand essentials of happiness are something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for. Chalmers


Prayer For Today: Dear Lord, who are so loving and strong, grant us out of yourself and your Word nourishment for our souls, strength for our spiritual sinews, power against temptation, and inspiration for life's tasks. May the Bible "find" us so that we may find you. In Jesus' name. Amen.


Suggestion: If you have trouble being on time, try these tricks: set your watch ten minutes fast and arrive at your appointed place thirty minutes early. Practice it; always take a book or something to do while you wait.

June 2


Exalt the LORD our God and worship at his holy mountain, for the LORD our God is holy. Psalms 99:9

Watch your thoughts, they become words.

Watch your words; they become actions.

Watch your actions; they become habits.

Watch your habits; they become character.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

Frank Outlaw

Prayer For Today: Lord Jesus, we could not possibly enter into the great experience of the cross without also sharing it by making the way of love, the way of sacrificial living, our way. Hard as it appears to be, may we know that you are with us and living your life within us. Amen.


Suggestion: What people think of you is important. Sit down sometimes and write yourself a reference and see how it reads.

June 3


The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. Hebrews 1:3

The greatest service one can perform is to be a friend to someone. Friendship is not only doing something for someone, but it is caring for someone which is what every person needs.
C. Neil Strait


Prayer For Today: O God who for the joy that was set before you bore the cross with patience, we pray for the grace to regard life not as a cup to be drained, but as a measure to be filled, until we attain unto the measure of the fullness of Christ. Amen.


Suggestion: Always be considerate. Never call anyone at home before 9 a. m. or after 8 p. m.

June 4


Do you see a man skilled in his work? He will serve before kings; he will not serve before obscure men. Proverbs 22:29


All of us have to make them. And, many times we “second guess” ourselves. What about a serious permanent decision already made? If I consider my original decision a good one, well made, then I have only to let God teach me how to live it out well. If I consider my original decision a bad one and I am free to change it, then I pray for God's help to know what and when to change. From Discerning The Will of God, author unknown


Prayer For Today: Lord, we pray for those who don’t know you. Open their eyes that they might “get it.” Let our objective be to live our lives as a light to others. Amen.


Suggestion: For twenty four hours, don't criticize a single person, don't even think constructive criticism

June 5


For everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and the encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope. Romans 15:4


How good it is to center down!

To sit quietly and see one's self pass by!

The streets of our minds see the endless traffic:

Our spirits resound with clashings, with noisy silences;

While something deep within hungers

and thirst for

The still moment and the resting lull.

Howard Thurman


Prayer For Today: O God who for the joy that was set before you bore the cross with patience, we pray for the grace to regard life not as a cup to be drained, but as a measure to be filled, until we attain unto the measure of the fullness of Christ. Amen.


Suggestion: If you don't have a dog, think about getting one. They are lots of trouble but force you to see lots of things. For instance, you can do anything to them and five seconds later, they are loving you. I don't know any person as forgiving, do you?

June 6


For the Lamb at the center of the throne will be their shepherd; he will lead them to springs of living water. And God will wipe away every tear from their eyes.
Revelation 7:17


But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will he destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare. 11 Peter 3:10


If we are to live together in peace, we must come to know each other better.
Lyndon Baines Johnson


My politics are three words well known to all of you, God bless America.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur on arrival in San Francisco after being removed from his post as supreme commander in the Korean War,1951


Prayer For Today: Heavenly Father, make us wise enough to know where we can find strength to carry the heavier burdens of life. We have trusted the world only to find that it left us weak and exhausted. You lift our spirits out of the greatest depths if we come to you in repentance and faith. Amen.


Suggestion: Practice listening when people talk. Really listen, don't immediately think of what your response must be. Today is the 65th Anniversary of D-Day. God Bless all veterans, especially WWII Veterans. Thank you for your service.

June 7


Come and listen, all you who fear God; let me tell you what he has done for me. Psalms 66:16


Do not stand at my grave and weep,

I am not there, I do not sleep.

I am in a thousand winds that blow,

I am the softly falling snow.

I am the gentle showers of rain,

I am the fields of ripening grain.

I am in the morning hush,

I am in the graceful rush

Of beautiful birds in circling flight,

I am the starshine of the night.

I am in the flowers that bloom,

I am in a quiet room.

I am in the birds that sing,

I am in each lovely thing.

Do not stand at my grave and cry,

I am not there. I do not die.

Mary Elizabeth Frye (1905-2004) was a Baltimore housewife and florist

Prayer For Today: O God, who works in men's hearts by the operation of The Spirit, save us from all unwillingness to learn your will and from shirking responsibilities. Grant us your power to fulfill completely your purposes in our lives. Amen.
Amen.

June 8


The people living in darkness have seen a great light; on those living in the land of the shadow of death a light has dawned. Matthew 4:16


Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen. Peter Marshall


Prayer For Today: Dear Lord, who are so loving and strong, grant us out of yourself and your Word nourishment for our souls, strength for our spiritual sinews, power against temptation, and inspiration for life's tasks. May the Bible "find" us so that we may find you. In Jesus' name. Amen.

Suggestion: If someone invites you to lunch, be cautious about what you order. Be modest. In fact, if possible, watch what they eat and follow closely unless it is unhealthy.

June 9


Suppose a brother or sister is without clothes and daily food. If one of you says to him, go, I wish you well; keep warm and well fed, but does nothing about his physical needs, what good is it? James 2:15-16


There wouldn’t be such a thing as counterfeit gold if there were no real gold somewhere. Old Sufi Proverb


If a man cannot be a Christian in the place where he is, he cannot be a Christian anywhere.
Henry Ward Beecher


Prayer For Today:Almighty God, you have power to give and to save life. All we have and are is in your hand. Teach us to trust you, even though our understanding falters. In the hour of trial, lead us through to triumphant faith. Amen.


Suggestion: Be modest, life happened before you entered the world.

June 10

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this [is] the first commandment.
Mark 12:30


Be ready when opportunity comes...Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet. Roy D. Chapin Jr


Prayer For Today:Forgive us, O God, for our restless striving. Grant that our troubles may help us to become quiet, that we may be willing to listen to your voice. Help us to await patiently your time. Amen.


Suggestion: Keep hangin' in there...keep at it... the opportunities will come.

June 11

A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
Proverbs 15:1


Ten Modern Rules To Live By

1. Be on time.

This includes responding to RSVP invitations and canceling appointments you aren't going to keep.

2. Include your phone number when leaving a message

on someone's answering machine, in case he/she's getting messages

from a car or pay phone.

3. Ask: may I have, not I need.

4. Carry a pen so you don't have to borrow one.

5. Don't call anyone at home before 9 a. m. or after 8 p. m. unless it's an emergency.

6. If you have call waiting, don't make the person you were talking to first wait on hold if you get another call.

7. Be quiet in libraries, in theaters, after the movie starts, and in hotels and hallways after 8 p. m. and before 10 a. m.

8. Closed means closed.

9. Don't violate people's privacy by giving their names, addresses or phone numbers to salesmen or anyone else without each person's prior permission. 10. You are responsible for your children and their behavior.

Robert Alan Soltis


Prayer For Today:Almighty and all-wise God, graciously consider the needs of your humble children. Without you life is vain and all efforts are futile. Guide us with your wisdom and help us always. Amen.


Suggestion: Even those with whom you have an argument/disagreement and think you win, consider apologizing anyway.

June 12

However, do not rejoice that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names are written in heaven. Luke 10:20


See everything, overlook a great deal; correct a little. Pope JohnXXlll


Prayer For Today:O God who for the joy that was set before you bore the cross with patience, we pray for the grace to regard life not as a cup to be drained, but as a measure to be filled, until we attain unto the measure of the fullness of Christ. Amen


Suggestion:Nothing is ever as bad as it seems. Give yourself a peptalk—the glass is always half full. Nothing in life is really all that tragic. Clear your head, take a long walk.

June 13

You will be secure, because there is hope; you will look about you and take your rest in safety. Job 11:18


The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions. Alfred Lord Tennyson


Prayer For Today:Dear Lord, we marvel at the friendliness with which Thou dost enter into the lives of those who wait for you. We would cultivate the habit of carrying all our problems into your genial presence without fear and of listening to your words of light and healing. Amen.


Suggestion:Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend. Albert Camus

June 14

For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not thinkc of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgement, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. Romans 12:3


There is a deep cultural tension that has existed over a couple thousand of years. It's the tension between the unremitting punishment of the old Testament and the doctrine of forgiveness and rebirth in the new Testament. There probably is not a solution.
James Johnson, convicted murderer and law student, fighting prejudices against his study of law.


Prayer For Today:God, too great for us ever to comprehand fully, we thank you that you have given us a glimpse of you in your Son Jesus. We thank you that the divine became human in Him. Grant that in us the human may become divine. As you do dwell with us, help us to dwell with you. Amen.


Suggestion:Don't ever give up on your dreams. They are powerful.

June 15

For his anger lasts for a moment,but his favor lasts a lifetime,weeping my remain for a night,but rejoicing comes in the morning. Psalms 30:5


In vain, we call old notions fudge

and bend our conscience to our dealings;

The Ten Commandments will not budge

And Stealing will continue stealing

James Russell Lowell




Prayer For Today: Father in heaven, Thou art pure and holy. Teach us to seek after cleanliness of body, mind, and soul. Make us grateful for the great atonement through Christ Jesus and happy in the thought that we are washed in the blood of the Lamb. Amen.


Suggestion: Don't get caught up in things that really are not that important. Recognize them and move on.

June 16

He listened to Paul as he was speaking. Paul looked directly at him, saw that he had faith to be healed and called out, "Stand up on your feet!" At that, the man jumped up and began to walk. Acts 14:9-10


When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." Helen Keller


"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up." Mark Twain


Prayer For Today: O Lord, we confess that material things so often seem to be our goal in life. Help us that the right order of things shall be observed from now on, where our final quest shall be your Kingdom and righteousness, to which your promise was given to add all needed things. Amen


Suggestion: There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will." Epictetus

June 17

Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves. Matthew 10:16


To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe. - Anatole France


Failure is only the opportunity to begin again, this time more wisely. - Anonymous


Prayer For Today: Dear Lord, so often we grovel in the dust defeated by our doubts, fears, anxieties, and cares. Raise us up to a life of victorious faith in you by your great power. May we also overcome and be with you forever in glory. Amen


Suggestion: It is a mistake to suppose that men succeed through success; they much oftener succeed through failures. Precept, study, advice, and example could never have taught them so well as failure has done. Samuel Smiles

June 18

And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might. And these words, which I command thee this day, shall be in thine heart: Deuteronomy 6:5-6


Life expectancy would grow by leaps and bounds if green vegetables smelled as good as bacon. ~Doug Larson


Prayer For Today: Our Lord, send us the gift of Thy peace, for we are often disturbed. With so much to disquiet and distract, we need the "peace that passeth all understanding, that shall guard our hearts and our thoughts in Christ Jesus." Amen.


Suggestion: Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw

June 19

These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world. John 16:33


Who is blind? He who can see no other world. Who is dumb? He who can say nothing pleasant about his lot. Who is poor? He who is troubled with too many desires. Who is rich? He who is happy with his lot. - Indian Proverb


Prayer For Today: Dear Lord, give us the power to resist evil in the world by strengthening our desires to do good. Bathe our hearts in the warm spirit of your love, that we may learn to forgive. "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." Amen.


Suggestion: Think abt It: Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. - Storm Jameson

June 20

From that time on Jesus began to preach, repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near. Matthew 4:17


Don't listen to those who say, it's not done that way. Maybe it's not, but maybe you'll do it anyway. Don't listen to those who say, you're taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today.

Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says, they're all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier and they have connections. They have a cousin who took out Meryl Streep's babysitter.

I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respect. Neil Simon


Prayer For Today: O God, who works in men's hearts by the operation of The Spirit, save us from all unwillingness to learn your will and from shirking responsibilities. Grant us your power to fulfill completely your purposes in our lives. Amen.


Suggestion: If you absolutely must occasionally have a pity party, go out and immediately do something for someone who has it tougher than you.

June 21

Place me like a seal over your heart, like a seal on your arm; for love is as strong as death, its jealousy unyielding as the grave. It burns like blazing fire, like a mighty flame. Song of Solomon: 8:6


How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breath and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all the life!—and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Prayer For Today: O God, you know our inmost thoughts. You know our deepest longings and desires. Make them worthy and good. May we seek your Kingdom and your righteousness above all else. Help us really to desire only what is good. Amen.


Suggestion: Have a Wonderful Fathers Day!!! Do something special for the Fathers anf Grandfathers in your life.

June 22

Rejoice in the Lord always. I will say it again: Rejoice! Let your gentleness be evident to all. The Lord is near. Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus. - Philippians 4: 4-7


The time to make friends is before you need them. - Traditional Proverb

Friendship doubles joy and halves grief. - Egyptian Proverb

A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway. - Fr. Jerome Cummings


Prayer For Today: God demands of us that we be holy. There is none of us, however, who is without sin. Forgive us, O God, and make us increasingly sensitive to the heinousness of sin, and lead us ever to repentance. Amen.


Suggestion: Only I can change my life. No one can do it for me. ( quote by Carol Burnett )

June 23

Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied about these men: See, the Lord is coming with thousands upon thousands of his holy ones to judge everyone, and to convict all the ungodly of all the ungodly acts they have done in the ungodly way, and of all the harsh words ungodly sinners have spoken against him. Jude 1:14-15


There are so many things that can only come when youth is past, That it may well happen to many of us to find ourselves happier and happier to the last. Elliot


Prayer For Today: Our Heavenly Father, create in us the desire to look upon life mainly as a series of opportunities for well-doing. We admit we grow faint too easily. Make us steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as we know that our labor is not in vain in the Lord. Amen.


Suggestion: Work to resolve conflict and if you can't resolve it, figure out how to manage it.

June 24

He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young. (KJV) Isa 40:11


You know, there's a lot of talk in this country about the federal deficit. But I think we should talk more about our empathy deficit -- the ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes; to see the world through the eyes of those who are different from us -- the child who's hungry, the steelworker who's been laid-off, the family who lost the entire life they built together when the storm came to town. When you think like this -- when you choose to broaden your ambit of concern and empathize with the plight of others, whether they are close friends or distant strangers -- it becomes harder not to act; harder not to help.
Barack Obama


Prayer For Today: Father, we pray that we may see our own life as related to your divine plan. Grant us grace to fill our place faithfully, always realizing that all things work together for good to them that love you. Amen.


Suggestion: The major block to compassion is the judgment in our minds. Judgment is the mind's primary tool of separation.
Diane Berke

June 25

For if ye forgive men their trespasses, your heavenly Father will also forgive you
(Matthew 6:14 KJV)


Anger is the most impotent of passions. It effects nothing it goes about, and hurts the one who is possessed by it more than the one against whom it is directed. - Carl Sandburg


Prayer For Today: Lord, we would hold before our eyes this day your spotless character. May we realize that we are children of our own deeds. Help us, then to say and do only those things which are in conformity with your divine will, and to be truly thankful for your guidance. Amen.


Suggestion: Anger is a momentary madness, so control your passion or it will control you. - Horace

June 26

Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
(KJV)Heb 13:5


Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content. Helen Keller


Prayer For Today: Teach us to cherish the words, "The meek will He guide in judgment, and the meek will He teach His way." May we have Thy gracious guidance. Help us to discipher the true meaning of your words. Amen.


Suggestion: Happiness consists not in having much, but in being content with little. Marguerite Gardiner

June 27

Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. (KJV)
Isa 53:4


He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates


Prayer For Today: Grant, O Lord, that we may be victors in the battle against temptation and sin, ever looking unto Jesus, the author and captain of our salvation. Amen.


Suggestion: Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
Horace Mann

June 28

A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels: (KJV)
Prov 1:5


People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
Abigail Van Buren


Prayer For Today: Lord Jesus, our elder Brother, we thank you that you are not ashamed to all us your brethren. As you did glorify your Father's Name, so help us to worship Him in the great brotherhood of all men with prayer and praise, with services an d sacrifices. Amen


Suggestion: We should be careful and discriminating in all the advice we give. We should be especially careful in giving advice that we would not think of following ourselves. Most of all, we ought to avoid giving counsel which we don't follow when it damages those who take us at our word.
Adlai Stevenson

June 29

Rejoice with them that do rejoice, and weep with them that weep. (KJV)
Rom 15:4


There are psychological repercussions to illness and we need a little more help to get through the effects not only on the afflicted but on the family . And I think there's even a place for humor in that.
Alan Thicke


Prayer For Today: Dear Lord, may we give the more earnest heed to the things we hear that are worthwhile, and not permit them to slip away from us. Amen.


Suggestion: It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.
— George Sand

June 30

The Spirit of the LORD will rest on him—the Spirit of wisdom and of understanding, the Spirit of counsel and of power, the Spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the LORD.
Isaiah 11:2


Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you. — Carl Sandburg


Prayer For Today: Almighty God, you did bring forth from the dead our Lord Jesus Christ, and made Him the Author of everlasting life, grant us power to live in our own lives this day the precious truth of the resurrection, that others seeing us may know that Jesus lives. Amen.


Suggestion: Get out there and live your life. Don't be afraid of change. Go for it.