ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
OCTOBER 14TH, 2008
TODAY'S THOUGHT
One of the sanest, surest and most generous joys of life comes
from being happy over the good fortune of others.
John Rutledge
TODAY’S ACTION
Be ready to find joy where and when it surfaces
TODAY’S QUOTE
Much unhappiness results from our inability to remember
the nice things that happen to us.
W.N. Rieger
HAPPY TUESDAY !!
Is it only Tuesday? Yesterday was a long slow day at work and today probably won’t go much faster. It’s not that I really want the days to fly by; it is just the time I spend at work I’d like to go a little faster.
The evenings when I’d like the time to slow down a bit are what seems to go by the fastest. Before I know it, it’s time to go to bed and I haven’t got much done.
I talked to DS#5 yesterday, He called because he hasn’t seen me in awhile and he wanted to make sure of some dates coming up. Before we know it Thanksgiving and our family celebration will be here. Not long after that will be our family Christmas Feast which will be on the 20th of December this year. DS#5 and his wife host that for us so he wanted to make sure of that date too.
I’ll be sending out more info on Thanksgiving and Christmas soon.
After Halloween there are only 8 weeks till Christmas
Have a great day all ! Another wonderful one on the Way !
TODAY’S PRAYERS
You Have Our Attention Lord
Our friends lost their houseThe co-worker lost her jobThe couple next door lost their retirementIt seems that everyone is losing their footing
This scares us. This bailout with billions.These rumblings of depression.These headlines: ominous, thunderous-“Going Broke!” “Going Down!” “Going Under!” “What Next?”
What is next?
We’re listening. And we’re admitting: You were right.
You told us this would happen.You shot straight about loving stuff and worshipping money.Greed will break your heart, you warned.Money will love you and leave you.Don’t put your hope in riches that are so uncertain.
You were right. Money is a fickle lover and we just got dumped.
We were wrong to spend what we didn’t have,Wrong to neglect prayer and ignore the poor,Wrong to think we ever earned a dime. We didn’t. You gave it. And now, tell us Father, are you taking it?
We’re listening. And we’re praying.Could you make something good out of this mess?
Of course you can. You always have.You led slaves out of slavery,Built temples out of ruins,Turned stormy waves into a glassy pond and water into sweet wine.
This disorder awaits your order. So do we. Through Christ,Amen
By Max Lucado
God will always give what is right to his people who cry to him night and day, and he will not be slow to answer them.
Lk. 18:7
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…HONEY BEE DAY
In honor of 211,600 beekeepers and 2.63 million colonies of honeybees (yes, we're guessing at those numbers). But, no matter how many there might be, they produce more than 220 million pounds of honey every single year! More than enough for your cup of tea
TODAY’S TRIVIA
Today is National Frump Day, honoring frugal, responsible, unpretentious, mature people everywhere
Since tonight will mark the first full moon after following Harvest Moon, we will have the Hunter's Moon
Monarch Day - On this day, millions of monarch butterflies return to Natural Bridges State Park each year near Santa Cruz, California
1954 - Talk about screen credits! With a cast of 25,000, the C.B. DeMille epic, The Ten Commandments, starring Charlton Heston, began filming in Egypt
1964 - The youngest person to receive a Nobel Peace Prize received the $54,000 award this day. Martin Luther King, Jr. donated the dollars to support civil rights in the U.S
TODAY’S SMILE
A famed English explorer was invited to Dartmouth to tell of his adventures in the African jungle.
"Can you imagine, a people so primitive that they love to eat the embryo of certain birds, and slices from the belly of certain animals? And grind up grass seed, make it into paste, burn it over a fire, then smear it with a greasy mess they extract from the mammary fluid of certain other animals?"
When the students looked startled by such barbarism,
the explorer added softly, "What I've been describing, of course, is a breakfast of bacon and eggs and buttered toast
TODAY’S WORD
sobriquet \SO-brih-kay; -ket; so-brih-KAY; -KET\, noun:
A nickname; an assumed name; an epithet
Sobriquet is from the French, from Old French soubriquet, "a chuck under the chin, hence, an affront, a nickname
TODAY’S REFLECTION
Oh you Pharisees!
Although you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish,
inside you are filled with plunder and evil
Luke 11:39
When Jesus was invited to dine at the home of a Pharisee, he was criticized by his host for failing to perform the customary ablutions before the meal. In their legalistic interpretation of God's law, the Pharisees were scrupulous about ritual cleanliness (performed in case of contact with "unclean" heathens). Jesus was more concerned with moral purity than with outward observance of the law. He made the comparison of tableware that had been washed clean on the outside but remained filthy inside. These religious leaders were contaminating the people with their emphasis on externals while ignoring the essence of the law: charity and justice.
Daily Word of Life
TODAY’S ADVICE FROM THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC
To remove tarnish, wash brass in the water from boiled potatoes
68 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
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