ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
OCTOBER 6TH, 2008
TODAY'S THOUGHT
The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.
Albert Einstein
TODAY’S ACTION
If you don't like something change it;
if you can't change it, change the way you think about it.
Mary Engelbreit
TODAY’S QUOTE
Where the heart is willing it will find a thousand ways, but where it is unwilling it will find a thousand excuses.
Author Unknown
HAPPY MONDAY !!
Back to Work!
Is it truly Monday already??? I’ve got my good coffee in hand and am trying to wake up and begin another day. It’s a new week and I’m sure it’ll be a good one.
I had another great weekend at the camper. It seems there have really not been any bad ones. We are down to ‘2’ maybe ‘3’ camping weekends left. The last one is when the campers are closed up and winterized so I’m not sure if I really should count that one.
I put a few pictures in my blog if you’d like to see them just click on the link below for WHAT’S NEW AT MY HOUSE.
I hope you all had a great weekend too and are ready for a new week!
Have a great day all ! Another wonderful one on the Way !
TODAY’S PRAYERS
Please pray for God's protection of
our troops and HIS wisdom for their
commanders.
Lord, hold our troops in
your loving hands.
Protect them as they protect us.
Bless them and their families for the
selfless acts they perform for us
in our time of need. I ask this in the
name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior.
GOD BLESS YOU!
25 WORDS
God, I thank You for today, for the ways You will bless me,
and for the ways that I will serve others in Your name
TO REMEMBER…
I am in the hands of God,
and in God’s time all things will be made well.
TODAY IS…BAKE BISCUITS DAY
Celebrate Biscuit Day by throwing together a real old-fashioned, down-home recipe like everybody's grandmother used to make (at least in the movies)!
Y'ALL COME BACK NOW BISCUITS
2 cups all purpose flour
1 tablespoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/3 cup solid vegetable shortening
3/4 cup milk or buttermilk
Combine the dry ingredients then cut in the shorteningwith the back of a fork until crumbly. Add the milk orButtermilk and stir until you have a soft dough.
Throw out onto a piece of floured wax paper and kneed 4 or 5 times (just kneed in more flour if the dough is too sticky).Roll out dough about 1/2 inches thick. Dip a glass in flourand cut circles for biscuits. Place your biscuits 1 inchapart on a greased cookie sheet and bake at 400F for 15 to 18 minutes or until golden brown
TODAY’S TRIVIA
Financial Planning Week, Kids' Goal Setting Week, National Physicians Assistants Week, and Improve Your Home Office Week begin today
1683 A band of religious refugees from Krefield, Germany came ashore at Philadelphia -- the first Mennonites to arrive in North America invited by William Penn. Their pastor, F. Daniel Pastorius, was considered by many the most learned man in America at the time
1847: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre was published
1853: Antioch College opened in Yellow Springs, Ohio. It was the first nonsectarian school to offer equal opportunity for both men and women
1876 American Library Association organized in Philadelphia
TODAY’S SMILE
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh, you might as well laugh about it now.
Marie Osmond
Early one morning a mother went to her sleeping son and woke him up.
Mom : "Wake up, son. It's time to go to school."
Son : "But why, Mama? I don't want to go to school."
Mom : "Give me two reasons why you don't want to go to school."
Son : "One, all the children hate me. Two, all the teachers hate me,"
Mom : "Oh! that's no reason. Come on, you have to go to school,"
Son : "Give me two good reasons WHY I should go to school?"
Mom : "One, you are FIFTY TWO years old.
Two, you are the PRINCIPAL of the school."
SPECIAL THOUGHTS
Kindness: a language the deaf can hear, the blind can see, and the mute can speak.
When you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours.
What holds you together is far greater than what can tear you apart.
Respect costs nothing.Life is like a soap opera.
God is the head writer; your story line keeps changing; it's a daily event; and there are Friday cliffhangers.
Sorrow looks back, worry looks around, faith looks up.
Fortune truly helps those who are of good judgment.
TODAY’S LINK
GOOD MORNING !
http://www.anthology-email.net/morning/morning.htm
TODAY’S WORD
rubicund \ROO-bih-kund\, adjective:Inclining to redness; ruddy; red
Rubicund comes from Latin rubicundus, "red, ruddy," from rubere, to be red
TODAY’S REFLECTION
But when you are praying, first forgive anyone you are holding a grudge against, so that your Father in heaven will forgive your sins, too. Mark 11:25
Leonardo da Vinci was one of the outstanding intellects of all history, for he was great as a draftsman, an engineer, and a thinker. Just before he commenced work on his “Last Supper” he had a violent quarrel with a fellow painter. So enraged and bitter was Leonardo that he determined to paint the face of his enemy, the other artist, into the face of Judas, and thus take his revenge and vent his spleen by handling the man down in infamy and scorn to succeeding generations.
The face of Judas was therefore one of the first that he finished, and everyone could easily recognize it as the face of the painter with whom he had quarreled. But when he came to paint the face of Christ, he could make no progress. Something seemed to be baffling him, holding him back, frustrating his best efforts. At length he came to the conclusion that the thing which was checking and frustrating him was the fact that he had painted his enemy into the face of Judas.
He therefore painted out the face of Judas and commenced anew on the face of Jesus, and this time with the success which the ages have acclaimed. You cannot at one and the same time be painting the features of Christ into your own life, and painting another face with the colors of enmity and hatred. C.E. Macartneyd
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
St. Augustine
TODAY’S ADVICE FROM THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC
Washboard sky, not three days dry
76 DAYS UNTIL WINTER !
Delight yourself in the Lord
and He will give you the desires of your Heart
Psalm 37:4
May there be a miracle in YOUR life today
and may you have the EYES to SEE it!
I Love You All !!!
Be Blessed !!!
MA
MY JOURNALS
WHAT’S NEW AT MY HOUSE
http://onyama.blogspot.com/
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2 comments:
Good Morning. Had to stop by to say how happy I am to see you here on blogspot. Your journal looks awesome. It's always such a pleasure to read your entries. God bless you.
I LOVE it here...I'm a quote junkie and you've got GREAT ones! When I lose 10 more pounds Im gonna make those biscuits too!!!
Melissa
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