Because God is my Shepherd, I have everything I need! He lets me rest in the meadow grass and leads me beside the quiet streams. He gives me new strength. He helps me do what honors him the most.

Through You, we are people of hope. May we summon up the power within to get beyond the temptation to fall into hopelessness.

In so doing it will dream and explore; it will be open, flexible, and ready to take risks; it will be generous, hospitable, and ready to celebrate.

Give all your children hope for a future that feeds the spirit and opens the door for new ways of being in relationship.

And now, may the peace of the gentle breezes, the peace of the singing birds, the peace of the shining sun, and the deep, deep peace of the Child of Peace be with you.

May we strive to promote human and animal life. Bless us and bless the creatures that bring us pleasure and joy.

May love be your response. May love be your words. May love be your silence. May love hold your boundaries. May love ignite your joy.

Help us to be aware of our surroundings, to appreciate life in the moment, and to live into our personal truth.

Enable us to share with others the light we have available to us.

And finally, there is self-actualization which is being self-aware and focusing on fulfilling one's potential. I wonder, are your needs being fulfilled?

At least that’s what I always believed. Until I looked out my kitchen window to see a huge yellow rose in full bloom.

It was the way the sun came out: as if there was light at the end of the tunnel, as if there was good to be illuminated.

Come, God-for-us: who whispers in our ears that we – each of us – are beloved children. Come, God-under-us: who cradles us in arms that never grow weary; whose lap has room enough for all.

I’d hoped in vain that a church would offer to collect her for the Christmas service and maybe even invite her for lunch, but it was not to be.

No matter how much we have to offer, every portion that we contribute counts and is appreciated.

I heard the bells on Christmas Day, Their old familiar carols play, And wild and sweet the words repeat, Of peace on earth, good will to all.

All life has some capacity to adapt to adversity ~ else no life would exist.

Remind us that you are with us even in the darkest of our times. Light us from within, and chase away the shadows of our fears and doubts. Help us to be beacons of light to those around us.

Glad that we have a God who loves us and who is with us every step of the way.

Oh that we could catch a vision of the peace, love, and joy that the Christians in Zambia share with each other!