Prayables | did you hear the one about priests on a tikki boat?

Published: Fri, 09/11/20

Friday September 11, 2020

If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie

Bad moods are not a right, it’s a poor excuse for rude behavior. You have the ability to eliminate the moodiness from your personality. May God bless you
with an even temper, on this day, and every day forward.

Dear God, Some days it’s hard to be a good person. Let today be a day when my love flows freely, my mind is clear and my actions are honorable. Thank You
holy One, who fills my spirit with kindness.

James 4:8 Come near to God and God will come near to you.

HELP FROM ABOVE

It was a choppy afternoon on the lake and Jimmy MacDonald from Albany was paddling in a kayak.

As Jimmy tells it, he drifted away from his wife and stepkids because he was taking pictures with his new smartphone "and not really paying attention."

As he tried to make his way back, the water got choppier and he paddled harder before he tipped over and lost his paddle.

He was in about 30 feet of water, his ill-fitting life jacket coming up over his head and he was holding onto the kayak with one hand and his new $1,400 smartphone with the other.

He says people---other kayers and canoeists---were passing by in the distance, but the former amateur boxer's pride wouldn't let him scream for help.

So for several exhausting minutes he kept trying to right the kayak.

"That's when I said, 'Alright, I think I might die today. I think this might be it.'" I prayed to my lord...read more + video

FAMILY HEALING AND RECONCILIATION

Please pray for my daughter Maggie that she stay on the road to recovery and she be strong enough to resist temptation.

Prayers for my family to heal and be reunited again. Prayers for Maggie and her father’s relationship to heal and he have patience and empathy towards her.

- anonymous