If we can hope and if we can love, we can change the world, starting with our own. '60 Seconds of Hope' your daily oasis of positivity and inspiration! Join Horace McMillon each day for a minute reflection designed to equip, empower, and inspire you to be your best self and to help all of us make the world a better place. Kickstart each morning with a dose of hope to uplift your spirits and set a positive tone for the day ahead. Tune in and embrace the power of positivity!
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Love and Sympathy, Not Theology and Dogma
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0:37Send us a text Love and Sympathy, Not Theology and Dogma “The world does not understand theology or dogma, but it understands love and sympathy.” - Dwight L Moody Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 46 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration #faith #justice #inspiratio…
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Send us a text “We must cherish one another, watch over one another, comfort one another, and gain instruction that we may all sit down in heaven together.” - Lucy Smith Some of us have so spiritualized the concept of the Kingdom of God/ Kingdom of Heaven that it has lost all its earthly relevance for us living today. The concept as Jesus describes…
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Send us a text “Belief in God is to love one’s fellow men.” - Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 45 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #personaldevelopment…
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Send us a text Stop Making Excuses “Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses” - George Washington Carver Lack of exposure is a thing. Lack of opportunity is a thing. Lack of money is a thing. It’s hard to get from here to there. It’s particularly hard when you don’t know where there is. There are rea…
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Send us a text Love the Prisoner “Remember those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them…” Hebrews 13:3 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 44 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #…
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Send us a text What Do We Need to Face? “Not everything that is faced can be changed; but nothing can be changed until it is faced,” James Baldwin There’s a tendency many of us, if not most of us have when we feel overwhelmed or discouraged, when we have tried and failed or when we have seen very few people succeed. That tendency is to shut down, t…
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Send us a text Show Us How to Love “Those who love God must love their brothers and sisters also.” - 1 John 4:21 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 43 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivem…
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Send us a text “As long as God gives me strength to work and try to make things real for my children, I'm going to work for it - even if it means making the ultimate sacrifice.” - Medgar Evers Evers served in World War II. We he came home, he completed his formal education and went on to become the first field secretary for the NAACP in Mississippi…
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Send us a text God’s Love is Deeper Yet! “There is no pit so deep, that God’s love is not deeper still.” - Corrie Ten Boom Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 42 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes …
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Reject Your Own Negative Self Stereotypes
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1:11Send us a text Reject Your Own Negative Self Stereotypes “We must reject not only the stereotypes that others have of us but also those that we have of ourselves.” - Shirley Chisholm Most of us would like to think we are immune to the stereotypes that larger society heap on us and other folk. But that is probably just not true. Back in the 1930s, K…
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Send us a text “I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world” - Mother Teresa Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 41 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequote…
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Send us a text “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired” - Fannie Lou Hammer Civil rights activist, women’s rights activist, community organizer and co founder of the Mississippi Democratic Freedom Party shows us the power of getting tired. When we get tired enough, we will stop accepting the unacceptable and face our fears. We decide that rema…
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Send us a text Choose Love Today “Life is very simple. What I give out comes back to me. Today, I choose to give love.” - Louise Hay Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 40 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #l…
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With the Courage and Tenacity of Our Forebears
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0:54Send us a text “If we have the courage and tenacity of our forebears, who stood firmly like a rock against the lash of slavery, we shall find a way to do for our day what they did for theirs" - Mary McLeod Bethune The moment in which we find ourselves is not particularly easy. Many of us looking at our individual circumstances, the news, and the wo…
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Send us a text “So, we have known and believe the love God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.” - 1 John 4:16 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 39 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration #faith #justice #inspirat…
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Send us a text “The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God’s presence in Jesus’ solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. What is redemptive is the faith that God snatches victory out of defeat, life out of death, and hope out of despair.” - James H. Cone T…
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Be Patient, Kind, Humble, and Happy for Others
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0:51Send us a text Be Patient, Kind, Humble, and Happy for Others “Love is patient; love is kind: love is not envious or boastful or arrogant.” - 1 Corinthians 13:4 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 38 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration #faith #justice #inspirationa…
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Send us a text Look for the Beauty “Despite the wretched conditions humankind continuously faces, I believe in the beauty that is, and it is my scholarly and pastoral duty to pursue and find it.” - JoAnne Marie Terrell What we seek is what we tend to find. What we focus on is what we tend to see. What we share is what we tend to experience. And wha…
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Let Love Show in Everything We Say and Do
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0:33Send us a text Let Love Show in Everything We Say and Do “If we have got the true love of God shed abroad in our hearts, we will show it in our lives.” - Dwight L. Moody Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 37 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration #faith #justice #ins…
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Send us a text “I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against" - Malcolm X Blood may be thicker than water, but truth and justice must be thicker still. It’s good to do for our family and friends, but not if doing so means wronging someone else’s family and friends. It’s good to work for the wellbeing of …
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Nothing Can Separate Us From The Love of God
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0:55Send us a text Nothing Can Separate Us from the Love of God “And I am convinced that nothing can ever separate us from God’s love. Neither death nor life, neither angels nor demons, neither our fears for today nor our worries about tomorrow—not even the powers of hell can separate us from God’s love. No power in the sky above or in the earth below—…
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Send us a text "We are going to emancipate ourselves from mental slavery because whilst others might free the body, none but ourselves can free the mind.” - Marcus Garvey What do we need to free ourselves from? Has our lack of knowledge and understanding of how we arrived at our current situation caused us internalize lies about our lack of charact…
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Send us a text Do What You Can. Start Now. “If you and your friends do not despise the small work, a million people will remove a lot of suffering” - Chan Khong Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 35 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration #faith #justice #inspirationa…
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Never Be Diminished by Your Circumstances
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0:59Send us a text "You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them” - Maya Angelou When I think of Angelou’s words, I think of a verse I frequently heard quoted at church growing up: “The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come that they may have life,and have it to the full. (Joh…
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Send us a text May We Always Care “The real opposite of love is not hate, but indifference.” - Elie Wiesel Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 34 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset…
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Send us a text Help Free Someone Else “When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.” - Toni Morrison Toni Morrison’s sentiments…
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Send us a text Love Through the Defeats “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.” - MLK Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 33 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiratio…
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Don’t Let Anyone Try To Limit Your Potential
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0:44Send us a text Don’t Let Anyone Try to Limit Your Potential “Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations". - Mae Jemison Be it because of your race, your gender, your economic class or current level of education… Be it because of your family background, your past, or even because of your present circumstances… There will be people who h…
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Send us a text Love is its Own Reward “Love alone is sufficient unto itself. It is its own end, its own merit, its own satisfaction…” Richard Rohr Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 32 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #daily…
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Send us a text Take the First Step “Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase." MLK We all want better. It’s just that too many of us give up because we can’t see the way forward. We can’t see our way past the obstacles in front of us. We can’t imagine how we possibly face the obstacles we have not seen. Dear God, w…
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God Loves Us. God Loves Us. God Loves Us!
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0:44Send us a text God Loves Us. God Loves Us. God Loves Us. “For you love all things that exist and detest none of the things that you have made, for you would not have made anything if you hated it.” - Wisdom 11:24 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 31 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #p…
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Send us a text How Change Comes “Perseverance is not a long race; it’s many short races one after the other.” – Walter Elliot When looking at the problems we face, it’s easy to become overwhelmed like the children at the end of the book “Cat in the Hat” We feel like the mess around us is ‘so deep, and so wide, and so far and so tall, there’s no way…
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Send us a text Teach Us What Justice Means “Justice is what love looks like in public.” - Cornel West Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 30 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration #faith #justice #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #per…
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Send us a text What is being fulfilled through us? “Then he began to say to them, "Today this scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing." - Luke 4:21 For those not immediately familiar with the passage, this section of Luke is considered to be the beginning of Jesus’s public ministry. Just prior, Jesus read these words and claimed them as his mi…
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Send us a text Love Empowers Us to Overcome “Two Truths: Nothing can separate us from the love of God, and God’s love empowers us to overcome.” (Based on Romans 8) Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 29 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration #faith #inspirationalquote…
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Send us a text Stay in the Fight! “Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up.” - Galatians 6:9 I know some of us are tired, dejected, frustrated and disappointed. We have experienced setbacks and loss. I did not anticipate that we’d still be fighting some of the battles we currently fa…
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Send us a text What Does Love Look Like? “What does love look like? It has hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has ears ti hear the sighs and sorrows of men…” - Augustine Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 28 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #…
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Send us a text We don’t know God, but God knows us. “For now we see only a reflection, as in a mirror, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known.” - 1 Corinthians 13:12 We are like tea cups in the ocean. The ocean will completely fill and surround the cup, and know everything…
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May We Love Each Other and Everyone Else
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0:42Send us a text May We Love Each Other and Everyone Else “May the Lord make your love increase and overflow for each other and everyone else…” 1 Thessalonians 3:12 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 27 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration #faith #inspirationalquotes…
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Send us a text In Whom Do We Trust? “Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked, from the grasp of the unjust and cruel.”- Psalm 71:4 In all my years of studying religion, theology, and philosophy, I’ve never come across a satisfactory answer for the problem of evil in the world created and sustained by a good God. Some would say it’s all par…
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Send us a text Give Us the Courage to Love “Because loss exists, love is a risk…”- Sheryl Paul Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 26 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #positivity #inspiration #faith #inspirationalquotes #dailyinspiration #lovequotes #positivemindset #personaldevelopment…
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Send us a text Compassion Heals Both Us and Them “As compassion and sympathy flow from us to any person marginalized for whatever reason, wounds are bandaged—both theirs and ours.” - Richard Rohr Nearly every day for the last two plus years, I’ve selected a verse or a quote as a prompt for reflection, meditation, and prayer. I first set this quote …
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Send us a text Strive for Goodness in Each Moment “Ubuntu tells us that we can a more peaceful world by striving for goodness in each moment, wherever we are.” - Desmond Tutu Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 25 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #posotivity #inspiration #faith #inspira…
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Send us a text Be Grateful “Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.” Epicurus Desire and ambition can be good, but only if they are first centered in appreciation and gratitude. It’s been said that comparison is a thief. It’s easy to look at someone else…
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Send us a text Time to Live It. Time to Love. “Most good things have been said far too many times and just need to be lived.” - Shane Claiborne “If I speak in the tongues of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if …
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Send us a text Strengthened and Emboldened by Love “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage. “ - Lao Trump Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 24. #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #posotivity #inspiration #faith #inspirationalquote…
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Send us a text But What About God’s Wrath? “He is a faithful God who keeps his covenant of mercy to the thousandth generation toward those who love him and observe his commandments. - Deuteronomy 7:9 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 23 “God’s Love is 250 Times Greater Than His Wrath “ #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevot…
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A Little Help, A Little Hope, and Someone Who Believes
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0:50Send us a text “All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.” - Magic Johnson I believe Magic Johnson’s words also apply to adults as well. No one is an island, as the expression goes. No one succeeds alone. At some point we all need a little help. We all need someone to encourage us and nurture our hope. We all …
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Send us a text Let Our Love Cover Their “Sins” “Above all, love each other deeply, because love covers over a multitude of sins.” - 1 Peter 4:8 Excerpted from “366 Days of Love: A Devotional “, Day 22 #60secondsofhope #366daysoflove #dailydevotion #dailydevotional #love #growth #posotivity #inspiration #faith #inspirationalquotes #lovequotes #posit…
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Send us a text Love Does It Well “Love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is done well.” – Vincent Van Gogh Our prayer is very simple today. We pray that God gives us a love and passion for the things we attempt and the things we do. Where our lo…
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