ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
NOVEMBER 3RD, 2008
TODAY'S THOUGHT
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Plato
TODAY’S ACTION
Remember that you influence by example
TODAY’S QUOTE
Do you remember the things you were worrying about a year ago? How did they work out? Didn't you waste a lot of fruitless energy on account of most of them? Didn't most of them turn out all right after all?
Dale Carnegie
HAPPY MONDAY !!
I opened up another journal at blogger because I like to have a place to enter special thoughts and also keep the monthly calendar up so the family can check it if they wish.
My Holiday Journal
http://mascalendar.blogspot.com/With Advent coming I hope to post a few thoughts about that and there are many other things that wouldn’t interest every one so I thought I should keep separate space for such things.
The weekend flew by. As it was dark a little after 5 in the evening I felt ready for bed at 6. That is not a good thing for sure. You can now see the floor space in my dining room. All the camping stuff has been removed. Some is in the basement, more is in the attic and a few things are still in-between but they are out of the kitchen or the dining room.
Maybe next weekend I can actually do some real cleaning. The house may fall down, it’s been so long.
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…SANDWICH LOVERS DAY
We honor John Montague, born in 1718, the Fourth Earl of Sandwich. Said to have been an avid gambler, he invented the sandwich as a time-saving way to eat while involved in a 24 hour card playing session.
We like them because there are no dirty dishes
TODAY’S TRIVIA
Today is National
Housewives Day,
always on the birthday of comic Roseanne Barr
Today is Let Someone
Have the Last Word Day
1952: A supermarket in Chester, New York, offered history’s first frozen bread for sale, using a
Birdseye quick-freeze process. It didn’t catch on, but Clarence’s frozen peas, introduced the same day, are still selling
1956 - The classic MGM film,
The Wizard of Oz, was first seen on television. The film cost CBS $250,000 to show. The movie was shown 18 times between 1956 and 1976, and you can probably catch it again no matter what year it is
TODAY’S SMILE
A physician phoned one of his financially delinquent patients.
"Mrs. Taylor," he said, "I'm sorry to tell you this, but your check just came back."
"So did my arthritis," she replied
ONE MORE…
The 92-year-old, petite, well-poised and proud mother-in-law of my best friend, who is fully dressed each morning by eight o'clock, with her hair fashionably coiffed and makeup perfectly applied, even though she is legally blind, moved to a nursing home today.
Her husband of 70 years recently passed away, making the move necessary.Maurine Jones is the most lovely, gracious, dignified woman that I have ever had the pleasure of meeting. While I have never aspired to attain her depth of wisdom, I do pray that I will learn from her vast experience.After many hours of waiting patiently in the lobby of the nursing home, she smiled sweetly when told her room was ready.
As she maneuvered her walker to the elevator, I provided a visual description of her tiny room, including the eyelet sheets that had been hung on her window. "I love it," she stated with the enthusiasm of an eight-year-old having just been presented with a new puppy."Mrs. Jones, you haven't seen the room ... just wait.""That doesn't have anything to do with it," she replied. "Happiness is something you decide on ahead of time.
Whether I like my room or not doesn't depend on how the furniture is arranged ... it's how I arrange my mind. I already decided to love it ..."It's a decision I make every morning when I wake up. I have a choice; I can spend the day in bed recounting the difficulty I have with the parts of my body that no longer work, or get out of bed and be thankful for the ones that do. Each day is a gift, and as long as my eyes open I'll focus on the new day and all the happy memories I've stored away ... just for this time in my life.
Old age is like a bank account ... you withdraw from what you've put in ... So, my advice to you would be to deposit a lot of happiness in the bank account of memories."
TODAY’S WORD
addle \AD-'l\, verb:
1. to make or become muddled or confused2. to make or become rotten or putrid
by 1712, from addle (n.) "urine, liquid filth," from Old English adela "mud, mire, liquid manure" (cognate with Old Swedish adel "urine," Middle Low German adel, Dutch aal "puddle"). Used in noun phrase addle egg (c.1250) "egg that does not hatch, rotten egg," literally urine egg. Because of this usage, the noun in English was taken as an adjective from c. 1600, meaning "putrid," and thence given a figurative extension to "empty, vain, idle," also "confused, muddled, unsound" (1706). The verb followed.
TODAY’S REFLECTION
Brothers and sisters: If there is any encouragement in Christ,any solace in love, any participation in the Spirit, any compassion and mercy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, with the same love, united in heart, thinking one thing. Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves, each looking out not for his own interests, but also everyone for those of others.
Philippians 2: 1-4
I think we get so caught up in our own lives that we sometimes forget that other people are out there who desperately need our help. In my opinion, helping others does not mean you have to do extravagant things, but it can just be a simple smile as you are on your way to class or work. I have many goals in life, but one of my main goals is to help someone, in some way, every day.
The gospel says basically the same thing. Jesus is telling us to go out of our way to be kind to those who are in need. It’s easy to be kind to people who will eventually help us, but it can be difficult to take the time to help support others who will never be able to help us in a physical way. However, I have found that every person I have helped, who I never thought would be able to help me, has impacted my life more than I could ever imagine
Daily Reflection
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TODAY’S ADVICE FROM THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC
Think on the end before you begin
48 DAYS UNTIL WINTER !
24 DAYS UNTIL THANKSGIVING
52 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS
AND 167 DAYS UNTIL CAMPING SEASON BEGINS
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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1 comment:
With mom's illness, last year was great! I worried about little things, not knowing what lay ahead. Savor every day.
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