PRAYING HANDS

There are hands that help and comfort,
Hands that plan and teach,
Hands that rest and hands that strive
For a goal just out of reach,
Hands that grasp and hands that give,
Hands that work and play,
Friendly hands and loving hands
That soothes life's cares away.
But praying hands are dearest
In the sight of God above
For in their sweet and earnest clasp
Are reverence and love.
No hands can do an unkind act
Nor cause another care
Nor sin against Our Father's love
When they are clasped in prayer.
Author Unknown

I guide you in the way of wisdom and lead you along straight paths. When you Find a need and fill it.
Ruth Stafford Peale

But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.
Matthew 6:3–4

Live simply that others might simply live.
Elizabeth Seaton

We can do no great things, only small things with great love.
Mother Teresa

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: “If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?” But…the good Samaritan reversed the question: “If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?”
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
Edmund Burke

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
Leo Rosten

Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
William James

May God grant you always
A sunbeam to warm you
A moonbeam to charm you
A sheltering angel
So nothing can harm you
Laughter to cheer you
Faithful friends near you
And whatever you pray
Heaven to hear you.
Author Unknown

Dear Lord, Help me to venture off the fast track and to see with new eyes today. Place me on the beckoning path you have planned for me. Motivate me when I fear failure, push me into it. Remind me that simple acts of love are often as small as a grain of sand, but put together they make beautiful dunes and shores. Show me how to make a difference and how to see you in every face I see. Amen

If anyone serves, he should do it with the strength God provides, so that in all things God may be praised through Jesus Christ.
1 Peter 4:11

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Anne Frank

Kindness has been described in many ways. It is the poetry of the heart, the music of the world. It is a golden chain which binds society together. It is a fountain of gladness. Kind hearts are more than coronets. Kind words produce their own beautiful image in man’s soul. Everyone knows the pleasure of receiving a kind look, a warm greeting, a hand held out in time of need. And such gestures can be made at so little expense, yet they bring such dividends to the investor.
The War Cry

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; A smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.
Emily Dickinson

Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
Hebrews 13:2

When your own burden is heaviest, you can always lighten a little some other burden. At the times when you cannot see God, there is still open to you this sacred possibility, to show God; for it is the love and kindness of human hearts through which the divine reality comes home to men, whether they name it or not. Let this thought, then, stay with you; there may be times when you cannot find help, but there is no time when you cannot give help.
George S. Merriam

In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
Karl Reiland

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
George Eliot

When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.
Author Unknown

It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.
Tom Broka

I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
Mother Teresa

I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who has given me strength, that he considered me faithful, appointing me to his service.
1 Timothy 1:12

I’ve seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.
Tracy Chapman

If I can do some good today,
If I can serve along life’s way,
If I can something helpful say,
Lord, show me how.

If I can right a human wrong,
If I can help to make one strong,
If I can cheer with smile or song,
Lord, show me how.

If I can aid one in distress,
If I can make a burden less,
If I can spread more happiness,
Lord, show me how.
Amen
Grenville Kleiser

God has not called us to see through each other, but to see each other through.
Author Unknown

Each one of us should use whatever gift he has received to serve others, faithfully administering God’s grace in its various forms.
1 Peter 4:10

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
Abraham Lincoln

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is a still greater, which is the good man that comes to relieve it.
Oliver Goldsmith

If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
Author Unknown

He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.
Sunshine Magazine

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
Albert Schweitzer

Dear God, help me to ask less and to give more. Show me how to comfort, to encourage, and to bring healing. Whenever You come to me and whatever You ask of me, let me be ready and eager to open the door in welcome. Help me to make time to serve. Help me to take time to touch someone’s life today. Help me to take time to listen, so that your love flows through me and I am aware of your Spirit within me. Help me recognize your presence, in any need for my action. Amen

The best cure for worry, depression, melancholy, brooding, is to go deliberately forth and try to lift with one’s sympathy the gloom of somebody else.
Arnold Bennett

If we could all hear one another’s prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.
Ashleigh Brilliant

Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
Norman B. Rice

Jesus said, “For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me will find it.”
Matthew 16:25

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain;
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.
Emily Dickinson

May the road rise up to meet you:
May the wind be always at your back,
The sun shine warm upon your face,
The rain fall soft upon your fields,
And until we meet again
May God hold you in the hollow of his hand.
Author Unknown

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can.
Sydney Smith

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.
Benjamin Disraeli

Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.
Author Unknown

One song can spark a moment,
One flower can wake the dream.
One tree can start a forest,
One bird can herald spring.
One smile begins a friendship,
One handclasp lifts a soul.
One star can guide a ship at sea,
One word can frame the goal.
One vote can change a nation,
One sunbeam lights a room.
One candle wipes out darkness,
One laugh will conquer gloom.
One step must start each journey,
One word must start each prayer.
One hope will raise our spirits,
One touch can show you care.
One voice can speak with wisdom,
One heart can know what’s true,
One life can make the difference,
You see, it’s up to you!
Author Unknown

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
William Penn

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.
Edward Everett Hale

Open my eyes dear Lord, that I may see the needs around me. Show me all the ways I can help. Give me words of comfort. Show me creative ways to do that which I think is impossible. Take what I know and place it with what I don’t and together make what I thought could never be done. Show me that though I am small, I am mighty in possibility for when I am weak, you make me strong. Amen

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pike

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer

You will find, as you look back upon your life, that the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others.
Henry Drummond

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
Winston Churchill

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
John Wooden

When you are tired and discouraged from fruitless efforts. . .
God knows how hard you have tried.
When you’ve cried so long and your heart is in anguish. . .
God has counted your tears.
When you feel that your life is on hold and time has passed you by . . .
God is waiting with you.
When you’re lonely and your friends are too busy even for a phone call. . .
God is by your side.
When you think you’ve tried everything and don’t know where to turn. . .
God has a solution.
When nothing makes sense and you are confused or frustrated. . .
God has the answer.
When suddenly your outlook is brighter and you find traces of hope. . .
God has whispered to you.
When things are going well and you have much to be thankful for. . .
God has blessed you.
When something joyful happens and you are filled with awe. . .
God has smiled upon you.
When you have a purpose to fulfill and a dream to follow. . .
God has opened your eyes and called you by name.
GOD KNOWS
Remember that wherever you are or what you are facing.
Author Unknown

I see your hand, Lord, in everything around me,
And in every aspect of my life, I see your will….
I see your plan, Lord, in all the years behind me.
And in the days and years to come, I’ll trust you still.
Jeremiah 29:11

Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands.
Protect them as they protect us.
Bless them and their families for the selfless acts
they perform for us in our time of need.
I ask this in the name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior. Amen

But those who hope in the Lord will renew their strength. They will soar on wings like eagles; they will run and not grow weary, they will walk and not be faint.
Isaiah 40:31

You go no where by accident.
Wherever you go, God is sending you.
Wherever you are, God has put you there.
He has a purpose in your being there.
Christ who dwells in you has something
He wants to do through you where you are.
Believe this and go in His grace and love and power.
Richard C. Halverson, Chaplain of the United States Senate

O God, help me to touch someone today with my eyes, my words,
my smile, my voice, my laughter, Your word.
Change my life, so I can make a difference.
Let my actions bring someone closer to you.
Help me to make Christmas last all year.
Help me to use my gifts for Jesus.

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