Guided Prayer: What do you want to change about your relationships?
Mark 1:16-18
Quote
Author Chuck Palahniuk: “Find joy in everything you choose to do. Every job, relationship, home… it’s your responsibility to love it, or change it.”
Guided Prayer: How do you have a good day?
Mark 1:14-15
Quotes
Playwright Eve Ensler: “I wake up every day and I think, ‘I’m breathing! It’s a good day.’
Jurgen Klopp: “Anyone can have a good day, but you have to be able to perform on a bad day.”
Mahatma Gandhi: “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”
Guided Prayer: How do you get through difficult times in you life?
Mark 1:12-13
Quotes
Kobe Bryant: “Everything negative - pressure, challenges - is all an opportunity for me to rise.”
Cicely Tyson: “Challenges make you discover things about yourself that you never really knew.”
Sophocles: “One who knows how to show and accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.”
Guided Prayer: How do you find happiness?
Mark 1:9-11
Dalai Lama: “Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.”
Thomas Merton: “Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.”
Eleanor Roosevelt: “Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.”
Guided Prayer: How do you determine your worth?
Mark 1:7-8
Quotes
Gwen Stefani: “I don’t have a strong sense of self-worth unless I’m doing something.”
Viola Davis: “there’s no prerequisites to worthiness. You’re born worthy, and I think that’s a message a lot of women need to hear.”
Guided Prayer: Do you ever struggle with forgiveness?
Mark 1:4
Quotes
Alexander Pope: “To err is human; to forgive, divine.”
Bernard Meltzer: “When you forgive, you in no way change the past - but you sure do change the future.”
Maya Angelou: “It’s one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody.”
Guided Prayer: How do you change your circumstances?
Mark 1:1-3
Quotes
Prince: “Every day I feel is a blessing from God. And I consider it a new beginning. Yeah, everything is beautiful.”
Professional Soccer Player, Carli Lloyd: “It’s always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can’t change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.”
Guided Prayer: Do you ever feel exhausted?
Proverbs 30:1b-3
Quotes
Kurt Vonnegut: “Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
William Arthur Ward: “the pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
Guided Prayer: How do you let go of fears?
Proverbs 29:25
Quotes
Yoda: “Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.”
Judy Blume: “Each of us must confront our own fears, we must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.”
Guided Prayer: How do you make situations better and not worse?
Proverbs 29:22-23
Quotes
Dalai Lama: “Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.”
Wayne Dyer: “If you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change.”
Guided Prayer: How do you slow down?
Proverbs 29:20
Quotes
Jack Johnson: “Slow down, everyone. You’re moving too fast.”
Saint Ignatius: “Be slow to speak, and only after having first listened quietly, so that you may understand the meaning, leanings, and wishes of those who do speak. Thus you will better know when to speak and when to be silent.”
Guided Prayer: What can you do to change your life for the better?
Proverbs 29:1
Quotes
Maya Angelou: “If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.”
Viktor E. Frankl: “When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.”
Guided Prayer: How do you set yourself up for success?
Proverbs 28:20
Quotes
Confucius: “Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.”
Michael J. Fox: “Discipline is just doing the same thing the right way whether anyone’s watching or not.”
Guided Prayer: How do you know what is worth your time?
Proverbs 28:19
Quotes
Stephen Covey: “The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
Archie Manning: “If you just make every effort to do the right thing, you’ll come out ok. It comes down to priorities and making good decisions.”
Guided Prayer: How do you have confidence?
How do you have confidence?
Proverbs 28:1
Quotes
Marie Curie: “Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves. We must believe that we are gifted for something and that this thing must be attained.”
Lao Tzu: “Kindness in words creates confidence.”
Eleanor Roosevelt: “You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’”
Guided Prayer: How do you have a growth mindset?
Proverbs 27:25-26
Quotes
Sarah McLachlan: “Change and growth is so painful. But it’s so necessary for us to evolve.”
George Eliot: “The strongest principle of growth lies in the human choice.”
Albert Einstein: “Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.”
Guided Prayer: How do you pay attention to what matters?
How do you pay attention to what matters?
Proverbs 27:23-24
Quotes
Anne Lamott: “Pay attention to the beauty surrounding you.”
Aldous Huxley: “There isn’t any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done.”
Guided Prayer: How do you make your life easier?
Proverbs 27:3
Quotes
Tagore: “The burden of the self is lightened when I laugh at myself.”
Marcus Cicero: “Any man is liable to err, only a fool persists in error.”
James Baldwin: “Be careful what you set your heart upon - for it will surely be yours.”
Guided Prayer: How do you improve your relationships?
Proverbs 27:1-2
Quotes:
Frank Lloyd Wright: “The space within becomes the reality of the building.”
Adam Grant: “Bragging about yourself violates norms of modesty and politeness - and if you were really competent, your work would speak for itself.”
Guided Prayer: How do you make life less complicated?
Proverbs 26:27
Quotes
Herbie Hancock: “It’s part of life to have obstacles. It’s about overcoming obstacles; that’s the key to happiness.”
Michael Jordan: “Obstacles don’t have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don’t turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.”
Ryan Holiday: “Consider this mind-set. Never in a hurry. Never worried. Never desperate. Never stopping short.”