Soul Food: Week of December 14, 2025

 

Sunday: My soul glorifies the Lord and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior for He has been mindful of the humble state of His servant. Virgin Mary, Immaculate Conception

 

Monday: From now on all generations will call me blessed, for the Mighty One has done great things for me.

 

Tuesday: Holy is His name, His mercy extends to those who fear him from generation to generation.

 

Wednesday: He has performed mighty deeds with His arm; He has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.

 

Thursday: He has brought down rulers from their thrones but has lifted up the humble.

 

Friday: He has filled the hungry with good things but has sent the rich away empty.

 

Saturday: He has helped His servant Israel, remembering to be merciful to Abraham and his descendants forever; even as He said to our fathers.

 

Soul Food: Week of December 7, 2025

 

Sunday: An honest politician is one who, when is bought stays bought. Simon Cameron

 

Monday: Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Lord Acton

 

Tuesday: No bribes, no lies – let truth rise high. Integrity is key, corruption can’t be. Break the chain, end the pain. Honesty pays, corruption decays. Anonymous. Various

 

Wednesday: Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption or both. John F. Kennedy

 

Thursday: Our country is now taking so steady a course as to show by what road it will pass to destruction, to wit: by consolidation of power first, and then corruption, its necessary consequence. Thomas Jefferson

 

Friday: Corruption, embezzlement, fraud, these are all characteristics which exist everywhere. It is regrettably the way human nature functions, whether we like it or not. What successful economies do is keep it to a minimum. Alan Greenspan

 

Saturday: It’s very important to talk about corruption. If you don’t … why would you give money to a country [or entity or person] you think is corrupt? Donald Trump

 

Soul Food: Week of November 30, 2025

 

Sunday: Advent to me is the beginning of the most joyful season of the year that heralds the prophesized birth of our Lord, Jesus Christ, reminds us of God’s undying love for us, and promises the faithful a chance for an eternal life in Heaven with Him.

 

Monday: At this Christmas when Christ comes, will He find a warm heart? Mark the season of Advent by loving & serving others with God’s own love & concern. Mother Teresa

 

Tuesday: Rejoice in the Lord always; Let your gentleness be known to everyone. The Lord is near. Philippians 4:4-5

 

Wednesday: In Advent we await an event which occurs in history and at the same time transcends it. St. John Paul II

 

Thursday: Awake, mankind! For your sake God has become man. St. Augustine

 

Friday: It is by loving people that we learn to love God. Various

 

Saturday: The Lord is coming, always coming. When you have ears to hear and eyes to see, you will recognize Him at any moment of your life … [for] … Life is Advent. St. John of the Cross

 

Soul Food: Week of November 23, 2025

 

Sunday: If You Lord, Blessed King of the Universe, had given us Free Will, but not come down from Heaven to forgive us our sins … It would have been enough.

 

Monday: If You Lord, Blessed King of the Universe, had come down from Heaven to forgive us our sins, but not rose from the dead after 3 days … It would have been enough.

 

Tuesday: If You Lord, Blessed King of the Universe, had risen from the dead after 3 days, but not sent us the Holy Spirit to continue to counsel us … It would have been enough.

 

Wednesday: If You Lord, Blessed King of the Universe, had sent us the Holy Spirit to continue to counsel us, but not inspired the Gospels to further teach us how to live as Your Father willed … It would have been enough.

 

Thursday: If You Lord, Blessed King of the Universe, had inspired the Gospels to tach us how to live as Your Father willed, but not spread Your Good News to the ends of the earth … It would have been enough.

 

Friday: If You Lord, Blessed King of the Universe, had spread Your Good News to the ends of the earth, but not inspired Michelangelo to capture the beauty of Your Creation and Salvation in divine works of art … It would have been enough.

 

Saturday: If You Lord, Blessed King of the Universe had inspired Michealangelo to capture the beauty of Your Creation and Salvation in divine works of art, but did not inspire Father Abraham to show us how the better angels in our nature can love one another better … It would have been enough …

 

Soul Food: Week of November 16, 2025

 

Sunday: There is an unyielding balance in God’s universe; likewise, there is a profound balance in Jesus Christ’s message to us grains of sand on how to help fulfill His plan. 

 

Monday: A grateful life likewise calls for finding a humble balance in how we carry out our assigned roles.

 

Tuesday: The prophesized Son of Man and Man of Sorrows would be “acquainted” with grief yet ascend His throne in the greatest glory. 

 

Wednesday: Must we forgive transgressors 3 times as stated in the Old Testament or 7 times 77 as Jesus once said? In the end, Jesus also often urged, what is most important to the Father is having “mercy from the heart.”

 

Thursday: Life is a balance between holding on and letting go. Rumi

 

Friday: Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. Albert Einstein

 

Saturday: Does our troubled world need a meteor that streaks across the sky & consumes himself to enlighten us OR a humble Messiah who sacrifices himself to show us how to follow the better angels in our nature? Or both?

 

Soul Food: Week of November 9, 2025

 

Sunday: There is a time for everything & a season for every activity under the heavens … [as] the sun rises & the sun sets & hurries back to where it rises. Ecclesiastes

 

Monday: He has made everything beautiful in its time … He hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

 

Tuesday: [Since the future is unknown or beyond human comprehension,] What profit is there for one to do all that he has to do under the sun? What do people get for all their hard work?

 

Wednesday: God surely tests humans [through trials & tribulations] in order for them to see that [by themselves, without God] they are [only] animals [after all]. 

 

Thursday: The patient in spirit is better than the proud of spirit [as true wisdom comes from learning to accept the reality of death & sorrow as well as life & joy].

 

Friday: Better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof: [To wit,] the day of death is better than the day of birth. 

 

Saturday: [In conclusion]: Fear God and keep His commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.

 

Soul Food: Week of November 2, 2025

 

Sunday: It’s reassuring to know you have fought the good fight, but it’s pleasing to realize you still have the energy to finish the race. 

 

Monday: We all have had our sorrows and failings in our sinful lives, yet it’s important to never forget our joys and triumphs.

 

Tuesday: Is there a worse feeling than getting unfairly fired from a job or a better feeling than getting hired for a new one that’s better than the old?

 

Wednesday: Too much of a good thing can turn a good thing into a bad thing.

 

Thursday: We are told that without Faith, even Jesus couldn’t (or wouldn’t) perform His miracles for us.

 

Friday: Even Apostle Little James was not spared his infirmity so that he’d be a shining example of patience & endurance to generations until the End of Times.

 

Saturday: You know you are getting old when you can’t recall whether a celebrity from your childhood is dead or still alive.

 

Soul Food: Week of October 26, 2025

 

Sunday: Work is the best antidote to sorrow, my dear Watson. Sherlock Holmes aka Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

 

Monday: Choose a job that you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life. Confucius

 

Tuesday: Throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours. Dale Carnegie

 

Wednesday: Everyone has been made for some particular work and the desire for that work has been put in every heart. Rumi

 

Thursday: The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. Mahatma Gandhi

 

Friday: Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings. William Arthur Ward

 

Saturday: The miracle is not that we do this work, but that we are happy to do it. Mother Teresa

 

Soul Food: Week of October 19, 2025

 

Sunday: Blessed are you, O Lord our God, King of the universe … Who makes every day a special day, a chance to serve You, a chance to do Your will.

 

Monday: … Who gives us this day that “I’ve never seen before.” Maya Angelou

 

Tuesday: … Who invites us to count our blessings so as to “change our life around.” Willie Nelson

 

Wednesday: … Who often replaces a lost blessing with one “most unexpectedly” in its place.  Goodreads 

 

Thursday: … Who gives us families & friends to love & nurture as you do Yourself, if infinitely more humbly.

 

Friday: … Who gives us the merciful, the pure in heart & the peacemakers. Jesus; Matt 5:3-10

 

Saturday: … Who meets all our needs according to the riches of His glory in Christ Jesus. Philippians 4:19

 

Soul Food: Week of October 12, 2025

 

Sunday: Loyalty will, by definition, exact a personal price that’s gladly paid by the loyalist no matter how often the bell doth toll.

 

Monday: Without trust, there can be no loyalty – and without loyalty, there can be no true growth. Fred Reicheld

 

Tuesday: Regard a friend as loyal & you will make him loyal. Seneca

 

Wednesday: Actions speak louder than words. 1 John 3:18, John Pym in Parliament speech

 

Thursday: He who is not with Me I against Me, and he who does not gather with Me scatters” is a quote of Jesus addressing spiritual loyalty found in Matthew 12:30 & Luke 11:23

 

Friday: Loyalty is a continuous phenomenon. You don’t score points for past action. Natasha Pulley

 

Saturday: In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. Martin Luther King, Jr.

 

Soul Food: Week of October 5, 2023

 

Sunday: Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. But today is a gift. And that is why it is called a present. Deepak Chopra

 

Monday: Do you want to see the mystery and miracle of life? Look into the eyes of a 3-month old baby …

 

Tuesday: Do not stare a gift horse in the mouth. 

 

Wednesday: Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Buddha

 

Thursday: Life is short. Everything can change in the blink of an eye. Various

 

Friday: Even in my pain, fears and disappointments, I find God’s amazing love, support and comfort. As Jesus promised I would …

 

Saturday: Today, I am simply grateful to take in another great … bad … in between day. No complaints. No requests. Just gratitude to the Almighty Who made me. Various

 

Soul Food: Week of September 28, 2025

 

Sunday: So much is asked of parents and so little is given, except the utter joy of giving life to, then, nurturing another to grow into a responsible & happy adult… 

 

Monday: In the happiest of our childhood memories our parents were happy, too. Robert Brault

 

Tuesday: The best feeling in the world is to know that your parents are smiling because of you. Proud Happy Moma

 

Wednesday: Love is a chain whereby to lock a child to its parent. A. Lincoln

 

Thursday: We never know the love of a parent till we become parents ourselves. Henry Ward Beecher

 

Friday: Nobody on earth can ever love you more than your parents. Anonymous

 

Saturday: Love and appreciate your parents. We are often so busy growing up we forget they are also growing old. Various

 

Soul Food: Week of September 21, 2025

 

This week’s respectfully offered daily meditations:

 

Sunday: You want a friend in Washington? Get a dog. Harry S. Truman

 

Monday: The one absolutely unselfish friend that a man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog. George Graham Vest

 

Tuesday: Properly trained, a Man can be Dog’s best friend. Corey Ford

 

Wednesday: Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog, it’s too dark to read. Groucho Marx

 

Thursday: When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. Edward Abbey

 

Friday: No one can understand the meaning of love unless he’s owned a dog. Gene Hill

 

Saturday: Blessed are those who have a dog waiting for them to come home.

 

Soul Food: Week of September 14, 2025

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Sunday: Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow; but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief & heal them. Leo Tolstoy

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Monday: I hear the loved survivors tell how naught from death could save, til every sound appears a knell & every spot a grave. A. Lincoln upon death of Anne Rutldge

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Tuesday: What we have once enjoyed, we can never lose. All that we love deeply becomes a part of us. Helen Keller

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Wednesday: No one ever told me that grief felt so much like fear. C.S. Lewis

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Thursday: Nothing that grieves us can be called little; by the external laws of proportion a child’s loss of a doll & a king’s loss of a crown are events of the same size. Mark Twain

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Friday: Grief can’t be shared. Everyone carries it alone; his own burden in his own way. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Saturday: God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can & the wisdom to know the difference. Unknown

 

Soul Food: Week of September 7, 2025

This week’s daily meditations are respectively offered:

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Sunday: “Fall” still never fails to be our most colorful, comforting & carefree season ... but, forgive me, how I miss its banished sweet smell of burning leaves.

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Monday: Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. F. Scott Fitzgerald

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Tuesday: Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree. Emily Bronte

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Wednesday: Autumn leaves don’t fall, they fly. They take their time & wander on this their only chance to soar. Della Owens

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Thursday: Autumn shows us how beautiful it is to let things go. Unknown

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Friday: Anyone who thinks fallen leaves are dead has never watched them dancing on a windy day. Shira Tamir

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Saturday: I hope I can be the autumn leaf, who looked at the sky & lived. And when it was time to leave, gracefully it knew life was a gift. Dodinsky

 

Soul Food: Week of August 31, 2025

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This week’s respectfully offered daily meditations:

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Sunday: There were false prophets in Jesus’ time on earth as there is now. And, we still can know them by the “fruit that they bear.”

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Monday: Why “beware of false prophets”? Because they are the ones “who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. Matthew

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Tuesday: For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. Timothy 4

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Wednesday: Character & compassion are heaven’s signposts.

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Thursday: Honesty & humility are hallmarks of angels.

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Friday: Commitment, patience, discipline & FAITH are God-like.

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Saturday: Behold, I stand at the door & knock. If any man hear my voice & open the door, I will come in to him & sup with him & he with Me. Revelation 3:2

 

Soul Food: Week of August 24, 2025

This week’s respectfully suggested daily meditations:

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Sunday: Jesus Christ was not only THE Savior of mankind but also a teacher who showed the way to that salvation through free will; He could have exposed the traitor, Judas, spared Himself, but chose not to.

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Monday: Damnation is all of man, from top to bottom, and salvaton is all of grace, from first to last. Charles Spurgeon

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Tuesday: He that perishes chooses to perish; but he that is saved is saved because of God has chosen to save him.

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Wednesday: If any man ascribes anything of salvation ... to the free will of man, he does nothing of grace and he has not learned Jesus Christ rightly. Martin Luther

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Thursday: The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Emund Burke

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Friday: Salvation brings the soul a deep awareness of God’s love. Life takes on more meaning, for it now has purpose. Mother Angelica

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Saturday: To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love & joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment. Eckhart Tolle

 

Soul Food: Week of August 17, 2025

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Sunday: Faith is like love. It's not something you can touch but you surely feel its power come over you.

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Monday: Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that He will. Will Rogers

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Tuesday: Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Wednesday: Doubt is not the opposite of faith; it is one element of faith. Paul Tillich

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Thursday: Look at the birds of the air. They do not sew or reap or store away in barns and yet their Heavenly Father feeds them. Jesus

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Friday: If you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can tell this mountain to move and it will move.

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Saturday: Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. St. Augustin

 

Soul Food: Week of August 10, 2025

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Sunday: Compromise in life as well as politics is akin to the human need for air, food & water. It’s the mix of stuff like needs, desires & rights that makes heaven on earth a possibility instead of a pipe dream.

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Monday: Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out. Paul Kagame

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Tuesday: Tolerance, compromise, understanding, acceptance, patience – I want those all to be very sharp tools in my shed. Ceelo Green

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Wednesday: Never compromise your principles, even if it leads to difficulties in the short term. Alan Casden

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Thursday: Never compromise on who you are. You are born with the capacity to achieve greatness if you so desire. Denzel Washington

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Friday: Lasting change is a series of compromises. Jane Goodall

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Saturday: A house divided cannot stand. Abraham Lincoln

 

Soul Food: Week of August 3, 2025

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Sunday: In the end, it’s not the years in your life that count. It’s the life in your years that do. Abe Lincoln

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Monday: Life is too short to worry about anything. You had better enjoy it because the next day promises nothing. Eric Davis

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Tuesday: You’re only here for a short visit. Don’t hurry, don’t worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way. Walter Hagen

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Wednesday: It can be energizing to think how you can improve your life, but it can be depressing to obsess on why you need improvement.

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Thursday: Some of the best days of your life haven’t happened yet. Anne Frank

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Friday: Today is the first day of the rest of your life. And if that doesn’t work out for you, Tomorrow is the first day of the rest of your life ... Bob Saget

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Saturday: One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure it’s worth watching. Gerard Way

 

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