Theme for February: Black History

Thought for the Week!

“Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.”

Booker T. Washington

Scripture for the Week!

That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

1 Corinthians 2:5

Prayer for the Week!

“O LORD, the hard-won miles
Have worn my stumbling feet:
Oh, soothe me with thy smiles,
And make my life complete.
The thorns were thick and keen
Where’er I trembling trod;
The way was long between
My wounded feet and God.
Where healing waters flow
Do thou my footsteps lead.
My heart is aching so;
Thy gracious balm I need.”

Paul Laurence Dunbar
(The first African American to gain widespread fame as a poet. This particular prayer was written as a personal retrospection not long before he died at the age of thirty-four, in 1906, from tuberculosis.)