Need a Little Inspiration? ARISE Introduces New “Combination Pack.”

The world needs affirming thoughts now more than ever. It’s easy to dwell on the negative and be swept into the flood of turmoil and tragedy. It’s more challenging to stay positive and look for the good in others. ARISE has three products that provide a daily nudge toward positivity. Until now, those three products were only available separately.  You can now purchase all three in a handy “combination pack.” Here is what you will receive, for the astounding price of $15.00:

• Stop!  The average person spends an hour in a car during each weekday commute. When you find yourself with an idle moment, choose to use your time wisely and build a more positive outlook for yourself. The ARISE Red Light Affirmation cards can be placed on the dashboard and read at every red light. Instead of staring into space or fiddling with the radio, use every red light as an opportunity to fill your mind with positive thoughts, such as “I look at what is right in people, not what is wrong.” Look at red lights not as roadblocks that keep you from moving forward, but as blessings for yourself and others.
• Look! Positive Cards are thoughtful ways to salute someone else’s selflessness. When you notice a random act of kindness, give ’em a Postive Card. They make excellent morale-lifters in the workplace. Use them at home if you catch your children doing something right.  Give them away to total strangers you catch in the act of doing something good. It’s amazing how your entire world view shifts when you purposely look for the good around you. Everyone involved will be happier, and we can’t get enough of that, can we?
• Pray! Give a little bit of yourself by offering a prayer for a youth who is struggling. This card can help you with the words. It will only take a moment, and you could bring some peace to a troubled heart. 

Each package of 30 cards, 10 of each, comes with directions on how to use them effectively. Each set of cards is bound with a special wrapper containing an inspirational message. If you need more cards, they are for sale individually on the ARISE Website, 50 for $9.95.  The website is also a great place to find new ideas, sale items and free downloads.

MAKE EVERY MOMENT OF YOUR LIFE COUNT.

“Time keeps on slippin’, slippin’, slippin’ into the future” -Steve Miller

A Prayer for Troubled Youth Brought to you by ARISE Life Skills & Training

If you work with at-risk and troubled youth and teens, chances are that your days are long and difficult and you often find yourself reaching out to a higher power for the patience to make it through.  No matter what religion or denomination you are, a thoughtful prayer can help soothe your mind and give you that extra push you need to fix what is broken and treat others the way you want to be treated.

ARISE is not a religious organization, but the ARISE Founders, Susan and Edmund Benson, created a special prayer specifically for those commited, courageous men and women who work with some of the toughest, most needy kids and teens in the country.  It is called “A Prayer for Troubled Youth.”

And here it is:

Here this humble prayer, O God, for our

troubled children, for at-risk youth that

are abused, misguided and vulnerable;

for children who yearn for nothing more

than encouraging words and a loving

touch; for any that have broken society’s

laws and are lost and frightened.

We entreat for them Thy mercy, grace

and forgiveness, and for those responsible

for their care we ask hearts of compassion,

gentle hands and kind words.

Make us, ourselves, to be true friends to

these young men and women, and so to

share the blessings of the merciful.

Amen.

 

For more life skills curricula, free downloads and fresh ideas, visit www.ariselife-skills.org.