Theme for February: Black History

Thought for the Week!

“I got my start by giving myself a start.”

Madam C.J. Walker

Scripture for the Week!

He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.

Isaiah 40:29-31

Prayer for the Week!

“Eternal and everlasting God, who art the Father of all mankind,
as we turn aside from the hurly-burly of everyday living, may
our hearts and souls, yea our very spirits, be lifted upward to
Thee, for it is from Thee that all blessing cometh. Keep us ever
mindful of our dependence upon Thee, for without Thee our
efforts are but naught. We pray for Thy divine guidance as we
travel the highways of life. We pray for more courage. We pray
for more faith and above all we pray for more love.
May we somehow come to understand the true meaning of Thy
love as revealed to us in the life, death and resurrection of Thy
son and our Lord and Master, Jesus Christ. May the Cross ever
remind us of Thy great love, for greater love no man hath given.
This is our supreme example, O God. May we be constrained to
follow in the name and spirit of Jesus, we pray.”

Coretta Scott King
(Wife of the Reverend Martin Luther King Jr., wrote her own spiritual essays and prayers attesting to her abiding faith in God. Her spiritual horizons expanded dramatically during her marriage and throughout her life-changing experiences in the civil rights movement in the 1950s and early 1960s, when she composed this piece.)