A Ten Commandments Prayer

The prayer rephrases each of the traditional Ten Commandments into a personal, positive request for God's guidance: A Ten Commandments Prayer Author: Jared Dees • 1. Help me keep you first in my life. (First Commandment: Put no other gods before God) • 2. Help me speak only good things in your name. (Second Commandment: Do not take God's name in vain) • 3. Help me attend Mass each week. (Third Commandment: Keep the Sabbath/Lord's Day holy) • 4. Help me honor my parents. (Fourth Commandment: Honor your father and mother) • 5. Help me protect life. (Fifth Commandment: You shall not kill) • 6. Help me be faithful to those I love. (Sixth Commandment: You shall not commit adultery) • 7. Help me be generous. (Seventh Commandment: You shall not steal) • 8. Help me speak the truth. (Eighth Commandment: You shall not bear false witness) • 9. Help me celebrate the beauty of others. (Ninth Commandment: You shall not covet your neighbor's spouse) • 10. Help me to want to share. (Tenth Commandment: You shall not covet your neighbor's goods) Amen. Source: The Religion Teacher | Catholic Religious Education Here are a few creative lesson ideas to help children engage with and understand "A Ten Commandments Prayer": 1. The "Mirror Match" Activity (Understanding the Context) • How it works: Print out a sheet with two columns. In the left column, list the traditional Ten Commandments (the "Thou shalt nots"). In the right column, list the modern prayer phrases from the image out of order. • The Goal: Have the children draw lines to connect the traditional commandment to its positive prayer version. This helps them see how ancient rules apply directly to their daily choices today. 2. "Action Plan" Prayer Journaling • How it works: Assign each child one (or a few) of the ten lines from the prayer. Ask them to write down or draw one specific action they can take this week to live out that prayer. • Example: For line 7 ("Help me be generous"), a child might write, "I will share my favorite toy with my sibling after school." 3. Classroom Prayer Response (Call-and-Response) • How it works: Use the text for your daily opening or closing prayer, turning it into a collaborative prayer. • The Goal: You (or a student leader) read the number and the underlying theme, and the rest of the class responds together with the prayer line. • Leader: "The Third Commandment reminds us to keep the Lord's Day holy." • Class: "Help me attend Mass each week." 4. Create an Illustrated Prayer Booklet • How it works: Divide your students into groups or give each child a ten-page blank booklet. Have them write one line of the prayer at the top of each page and draw a picture illustrating what that looks like in real life (e.g., drawing themselves helping their parents for line 4). Source: AI Generated

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Puppy Love

What a wonder is sweet puppy love With us always in our deepest woe, Only loyal while we weep on Remaining ever close. Somehow understanding joy and sorrow Intrinsically as one, While we are busy trying to find release And let the pain be done. For, there's something very special About the bonding they will show in grief, Don't we wonder at their loving touch How together we can weep. As sorrows call forth a depth in relationship Never felt another way, And while we contemplate the ways of suffering For what comfort we will pray. And then how much more we appreciate Blessings that come our way If we like a puppy, feel another's pain Might we never more complain. They are grateful in innocent joy no matter what So at rest will they be How can we like them, accept things as they are In all the heartache that we see. Circumstances remain the same Yet their hearts are free, How will we find a joyous release like they Within the limitations that we feel. Can we too, trust a Master With such blind devotion of heart, Believing His abounding care Is in all He does impart. A puppy's tender eye of love Speaks so, of how fragile we also are, Ever subject to the big world's unknowns Who can safely keep our tender heart. Oh, Jesus is our trusted loving master For He broke the power of fear and death, We can be secure in Him, just like puppy love If in His love we rest.

Soft Whispers from Derry's Heart Poems
© 2004 used with permission

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The Mission Field

Take a walk in the park you have a lot to see The pitiful little children not so blessed as we. This is a mission field no missionary is there We just over look them not much time to spare. Some who have so much to give don't go to foreign land To find God's plan for you fill these little empty hands. We need to teach each one about Jesus Christ their Lord They need our help right here they haven't enough, they need more. Take a moment, look around find some way to help Just share the things you have you'll feel better about yourself. These are God's children too the poor and needy he spoke about Lets open up our hearts we all can help them out.

Betty Hill © 2004

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Church Football

Dear Saints,

Well, it is that inevitable time for sports enthusiasts and others for the big SuperBowl activities. In fact, I heard that Fox Network is going to begin pre-game activities this morning, the game isn’t until 5:30 p.m. this afternoon! 

With that said, I thought you would enjoy the following:

Church Football

Benchwarmer - Those who do not sing, pray, work, or apparently do anything but sit.

Quarterback Sneak - Church members quietly leaving during the invitation.

Draw Play - What many children do with the bulletin during worship.

Halftime - The period between Sunday 5chool and worship when many choose to leave

Backfield-in-Motion - Making a trip to the back (restroom or water fountain) repeatedly during the service.

Staying in the Pocket - What happens to a lot of money that should be given to the Lord’s work.

Instant Replay - The preacher loses his notes and falls back on last week’s illustrations.

Trap - You’re called on to pray and are asleep.

End Run - Getting out of church quick, without speaking to any guest or fellow member.

Flex Defense - The ability to allow absolutely nothing said during the sermon to affect your life.

Blitz - The rush for the restaurants following the closing prayer.

Two-minute Warning - The point at which you realize the sermon is almost over and begin to gather up your children and belongings.

Halfback Option - The decision of 75% of the congregation not to return for the evening service.

Sudden Death - What happens to the attention span of the congregation if the preacher goes "overtime".

I hope you found that as humorous as I did. Maybe you didn't! Oh well, the warped humor of a christian! Smile!

Source: Archived ... Also see "The Church of Football" for his take on this Terminolgy

 

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The Parable Of The ROSE

A certain man planted a rose and watered it faithfully. Before it blossomed, he examined it. He saw a bud that would soon blossom. He also saw the thorns, and he thought, "How can any beautiful flower come from a plant, burdened with so many sharp thorns?"Saddened by this thought, he neglected to water the rose, and before it was ready to bloom, it died. So it is with many people. Within every soul, there is a rose. The "God-like" qualities planted in us at birth, growing amidst the thorns of our faults. Many of us look at ourselves and see only the thorns, the defects. We despair, thinking nothing good can possibly come from us. We neglect to water the good within us, and eventually it dies. We never realize our potential. Some don't see the rose within themselves. It takes someone else to show it to them. One of the greatest gifts a person can possessis to be able to reach past the thorns and find the rose within others. This is the truest, most innocent, and gracious characteristic of love to know another person, including their faults, recognize the nobility in their soul, and yet, still help another to realize they can overcome their faults. If we show them the rose, they will conquer the thorns. Only then will they blossom many times over, Our duty in this world is to help others, by showing them their roses and not their thorns. It is then that we achieve the love we should feel for each other.Only then can we bloom in our own garden.

Source:MotivateUs.com

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