Shower of Blessing Stewardship Thrust

From the Open Files of:

NW Synod of Wisconsin Resource Center (715) 833-1153

Contributed by:

Grace Lutheran Church, Eau Claire, WI.


Blessing slips - [ Exhibit A ]

A representative sampling of the slips added to the "blessings bowl."

Many people will walk in and out of your life, but only a few will leave footprints in your heart.

The nice things about teamwork is you always have someone on your side.

Whatever we possess becomes of double value when we have the opportunity of sharing it with others.

I can do everything through him who gives me strength. Phillipians 2:113 (NIV)

Be happy in your hope, patient in your trouble, and keep busy praying.

If you want to be a great person make everyone else feel great.

Preach the gospel always, using words only whenever necessary.

You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

Music is a great mood alternator. Keep a song in your heart.

When you put a limit on what you WILL do, you have put a limit on what you CAN do.

If the only prayer you say is "Thank you." That is enough.

Blessed are you ... if you make one person happy today.

Today, don't SAY what you believe - DO what you believe.

Believe!! Unbelief is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do but won't get you anywhere.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak but their echoes are truly endless. (Mother Teresa.)

Christian Stewardship is concerned not so much with what you have as with what you do with it.

Martin Luther wrote: "I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all, but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.

A seven-word cure for loneliness and unhappiness: GET BUSY DOING SOMETHING FOR SOMEONE ELSE.

Shake a person's hand and you touch a person's heart.

Introduce yourself to one person in church today.

If you have a sense of humor you have one of life's greatest blessings.

Duty makes us do things well, love makes us do them beautifully.

Do not wish to be anything but what you are...and try to be that perfectly.

Remember: large opportunities come to those who have been FAITHFUL in small tasks.

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting. Thank God for it is a cup of blessing. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. DO WHAT YOU CAN. (Sydney Smith)

Enrich someone's life today with a warm word of praise. Both of you will be better for it.

Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic. (Rosalind Russell)

We too often love THINGS and use people when we should be using things and LOVING PEOPLE. (Reuel L. Howe)

Faith sees the invisible, beleives the incredible and receives the impossible.

Talent is God-given...be grateful. Reputation is human-given...be humble. Ego is self-given...be careful.

God is so good...he cares for me. God is so good...He answers prayers.

Faith by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. James 2:17

How great is our God?
He will NEVER leave us.

Our Lord has written the promise of the resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf of Springtime. (Martin Luther.)

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in your power to do it. Proverbs 3:27

Faith sees the invisible, believes the incredible, and receives the impossible.

Faith, by itself, if it is not accompanied by action, is dead. James 2:17


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