Your Goals Will Grow You

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Make a list of short-term goals you would like to achieve by the end of the year, month, or even week. I find it’s easier to think of these goals at the end of a tech-free day. As you accomplish these goals, give gratitude for the hard work, inspiration, people, and other factors that helped you along the way. My goal is to give more to those around me, near and far. I would love to hear yours!

This post is an excerpt from Badass Affirmations Habit Tracker by Becca Anderson, which can be found at Amazon and Mango Media.

What Is Your Service to the World?

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God,

I’m willing
to do your work.

Please
show me what it is.

– Tami Simon, Boulder, Colorado

This post is an excerpt from Prayers for Hard Times by Becca Anderson, which can be found at Amazon and Mango Media.

NEVER GIVE UP!

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When things go wrong, as they sometimes will,
when the road you’re trudging seems all uphill,
when the funds are low and the debts are high,
and you want to smile, but you have to sigh,
when care is pressing you down a bit,
rest, if you must—but don’t you quit.

Life is queer with its twists and turns,
as every one of us sometimes learns,
and many a fellow turns about,
when he might have won had he stuck it out.
Don’t give up, though the pace seems slow…
You might succeed with another blow.

Often the goal is nearer than it seems
to a faint and faltering man.
Often the struggler has given up,
when he might have captured the victor’s cup,
and learned too late when the night slipped down,
How close he was to the golden crown.

Success is failure turned inside out,
the silver tint to the clouds of doubt—
And you can never tell how close you are.
It may appear when it seems afar;
So stick to the fight when you’re hardest hit—
It’s when things seem worst that you mustn’t quit!

—Anonymous

This post is an excerpt from Prayers for Calm by Becca Anderson, which can be found at Amazon and Mango Media.

Working Mothers Are Our Heroes

My Loving Creator, You know how really tired I am.

On days when things are really frantic,

I consider how you made the world in seven days—and then I try

to remember that you aren’t asking me to recreate that feat.

Please help me to remain a loving mother to my children

and to keep some balance in my life.

Help me to remember that you are with me

in every packed hour of every day.

As I am finishing a work project or planning dinner

or buying the kids shoes

(sometimes all at the same time), help me to remember

your loving care for me and let me sometimes stop for a moment

and just wallow in that. Most of all, my caring Father,

let me remember to ask for help and to rely on you for strength

when I have none left; for patience when mine is so often gone;

and for the wisdom and endless well of compassion

and love I need in my job as mother.

—Unity Church San Francisco

This post is an excerpt from The Woman’s Book of Prayer by Becca Anderson, which can be found at Amazon and Mango Media.

Prayer for Farm Workers’ Struggle

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Show me the suffering of the most miserable;
So I will know my people’s plight.
Free me to pray for others;
For you are present in every person.
Help me take responsibility for my own life;
So that I can be free at last.
Grant me courage to serve others;
For in service there is true life.
Give me honesty and patience;
So that the Spirit will be alive among us.
Let the Spirit flourish and grow;
So that we will never tire of the struggle.
Let us remember those who have died for justice;
For they have given us life.
Help us love even those who hate us;
So we can change the world.
Amen..
– César Chávez

This post is an excerpt from Prayers for Hard Times by Becca Anderson, which can be found at Amazon and Mango Media.