ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
DECEMBER 1ST, 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
Friends in your life are like pillars on your porch. Sometimes they hold you up and sometimes they lean on you. Sometimes it's just enough to know they're standing by.
Elizabeth Foley
IT’S MONDAY !!
It’s Back to Work for me today. It won’t be a pretty sight I’m sure.
The desk will be loaded with stacks and stacks of stuff to do and it’s Payroll Day once more. It does seem like I just did that and here we go again.
I heard from DS#1 , DS#6 and DS#4 that they had all arrived back home safely and DS#2 leaves for his long trip home today. Everyone has to go back to work .
Have a great day all ! Another wonderful one on the Way !
TODAY’S PRAYERS
In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth. He created the sun, the moon, the stars and all the plants and animals
Heavenly Father, we thank you for your love.
Come, Lord Jesus, come
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 ALL!
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… APPLE KRINGLE DAY
We have an Apple Krinkle day is because it's my favorite winter dessert. And I have my recipe to give you. Eat this hot out of the oven or cold out of the fridge. Eat it plain or pile on the ice cream. There is nothing you can do to this that makes it anything except yummy good!
4 cups apples
1 cup sugar
2 tablespoons flour
Topping
1/2 cup butter or margarine
1/2 cup flour
1/3 brown sugar
1/2 oatmeal
Preheat oven to 350 degrees2. Peal and slice the apples into a baking dish. Sprinkle 1 cup of sugar and 2 tablespoons of flour over the top of the apples.3. Put the butter, flour, brown sugar and oatmeal for the topping in a mixing bowl. Blend well with the back of a fork. Spread evenly over the top of the apples.Bake 45 minutes to 1 hour - until the apples are bubbly and the top is brown
EACH DAY OF DECEMBER
Dec. 1 - Christmas Dishes:
Bring out any Christmas dishes and serving pieces on the first day of December. Use them every evening until the Christmas holidays are over
TODAY’S TRIVIA
National Stress-Free Family Holidays Month begins
Cookie Cutter Week begins
Today is National Pie Day
Today is Coats and Toys for Kids Day
Today is National Eat a Red Apple Day
The annual Chia Pet Hunting Season begins today
1913: America’s first drive-in auto service station opened in Pittsburgh
1917 - Father Edward Flanagan opened Boys Town, a farm village for wayward boys (and for girls since 1979), in an area west of Omaha, Nebraska. In 1938, Spencer Tracy portrayed Father Flanagan in the movie, Boys Town, and won himself an Oscar
1929: Edwin S. Lowe invented the game of Bingo
1945 - Burl Ives made his concert debut. He appeared at New York’s Town Hall. We lovingly listen every year for the voice of this old-time radio personality as the narrator and banjo-pickin’ snowman in TV’s Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
1973 - ‘The Golden Bear’, Jack Nicklaus, won the Walt Disney World Open Golf Tournament and became the first golfer to win $2 million in career earnings
TODAY’S SMILE
Driving home from her office one summer day, a woman noted that there were four places within two blocks of her home where she could stop and buy a five-cent glass of iced tea. Each little stand had two or three youngsters behind it, all eager to serve any customer who came their way.
During the next two weeks, the woman managed to stop at each of the stands to encourage the entrepreneurs. In each case the tea was very good. Small talk revealed that all the youngsters were selling tea made by their mothers, who used tea leaves and real lemons in making the tea.
One day the woman discovered that only one stand was operating. Behind it was the new kid on the block. She stopped and ordered a glass of tea. It was served in a paper cup and it cost 10 cents. Some conversation brought out the fact that the young man's father was a lawyer who specialized in mergers, which had inspired the boy to buy out his competitors, bartering with baseball cards, marbles, and stuff he had laying around in his garage.
His first act, he explained, was to raise the price of the iced tea, and cut costs. He was using a powdered tea mix from the supermarket, he said, which eliminated buying real lemons as well as the bother of squeezing them or putting them in the juicer. He didn't have to brew real tea either, he pointed out. He had plans to cut costs further, he said, and with his competitors out of the market, he expected sales to grow.
Intrigued, the woman made a half dozen more stops at the stand and became aware that the tea was getting weaker and weaker.One day the young man confessed that sales were dropping and he attributed this to the fact that he was using less and less of the powdered-tea mix. Then one day he went out of business, as attempts to turn things around failed.
The moral of this story is: Honest tea is the best policy.
TODAY’S WORD
incursion \in-KUR-zhuhn; -shuhn\, noun:
1. a sudden attack; invasion, raid2. a running or flowing in
by 1432 "hostile attack," from Latin incursionem "a running against," from incurrere
TODAY’S LINK
CHRISTMAS IS…
http://www.interviewwithgod.com/christmasis/
TODAY’S REFLECTION
No matter how many promises God has made, they are "Yes" in Christ. And so through him the "Amen" is spoken by us to the glory of God.
2 Corinthians 1:20
Real life doesn't always give us a happily-ever-after ending. We may not live to see the fulfillment of God's promises, yet we can be sure that our faith is not in vain.
God can accomplish far more than we can ever hope
TODAY’S ADVICE FROM THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC
By wisdom peace, by peace plenty
20 DAYS UNTIL WINTER !
24 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS
AND 139 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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