10/17/2026
🌅 GOOD MORNING, FELICITY! 🙏❤️
YOU CAN’T JUDGE A BOOK BY ITS COVER
Good morning, Felicity! ❤️
Growing up, most of us heard the saying, “You can’t judge a book by its cover.”
Well, think about that for a minute.
God created a world filled with people who look different, think differently, have different personalities, and walk through different experiences.
Every person has a story. Every person has a past. And every person is fighting battles that others may never know about.
Yet how often do we form an opinion about someone before we’ve even taken the time to know them?
📖 “For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.” — 1 Samuel 16:7 KJV
What a powerful reminder.
We see someone’s clothes, their appearance, their mistakes, or perhaps one bad moment in their life.
But we don’t always see the struggles they’ve survived, the prayers they’ve whispered, the losses they’ve suffered, or the kindness they’ve shown when nobody was watching.
Sometimes the person who seems unfriendly is carrying a broken heart.
Sometimes the person who smiles the most is fighting a battle we know nothing about.
Sometimes the person who has made mistakes is trying harder than anyone realizes to become a better person.
And sometimes the person we’ve been quickest to judge is the very person who needs our compassion the most.
God knows the whole story. We usually only see one page.
That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t recognize right from wrong. It means we should be careful not to mistake our first impression for the truth about someone’s heart.
Because none of us are perfect. We all have chapters in our lives we wish we could rewrite.
And aren’t we thankful that God offers us grace instead of judging us by our worst moments?
🙏 OUR MORNING PRAYER
Heavenly Father,
Thank You for creating each of us with a life, a purpose, and a story that matters.
Forgive us for the times we’ve judged others without knowing what they’re going through.
Help us look beyond appearances and treat people with patience, kindness, and understanding.
Bless our little community of Felicity. Bless our children, our families, our neighbors, and those who feel misunderstood or forgotten.
Continue to comfort the families grieving our community’s recent tragedy.
Bless Clinger’s, our employees, and everyone who walks through our doors.
Lord, remind us that we don’t have to look alike, think alike, or live alike to treat one another with love and respect.
Teach us to see people with compassion before we form an opinion.
In Jesus’ name, Amen. 🙏❤️
Felicity, before you judge someone today, remember this:
You may see their face, but you haven’t walked their journey. You may know their name, but you don’t know every chapter of their story.
And every person you meet is someone God knows by heart. ❤️
❤️ FELICITY STRONG. JESUS STRONGER. ✝️