For Monday, January 26th, 2009

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
JANUARY 26th, 2009


TODAY'S THOUGHT

At Age 60 - I've learned that if you depend on others to make you happy, you will be endlessly disappointed



TODAY’S ACTION

Count your blessings instead of your crosses,

Count you gains instead of your losses,

Count your joys instead of your woes,

Count your friends instead of your foes.

Count your courage instead of your fears,

Count your laughs instead of your tears.

Count your full years instead of your lean,

Count your kind deeds instead of your mean.

Count your health instead of your wealth,

Count on God instead of yourself.

Irish Blessing


TODAY’S QUOTE

What, giving again? I asked in dismay.

And must I keep giving and giving away?

Oh, no, said the angel, piercing me through,

Just give till the Father stops giving to you.
Author Unknown

IT’S MONDAY !!

Back to work !
I do hope you all got plenty of rest over the weekend and are ready for a new work week! I got plenty of rest, but I don’t know if I’m ready to go back to work. It’s still cold out and I hate the thoughts of leaving the house. But I will after I have my good cup of hot coffee, that is.

I talked to DS#2 yesterday that has been at a school for his work all the month of January. He’ll finally finish and will be headed back to his home the end of this week. He’ll only be home a couple weeks and he’ll be off again. All work related. And DS#4 called and said he’ll be traveling most of the month of February too.

DS#1 called to say they are busy making plans for next weekend. I guess DD and her hubby and DS#5 and his wife and DS#6 and his wife are going down Friday evening and will spend the night so they can help out.

I’ll go early Sat. morning and come home the same evening. They all like to get together and catch up on things anyway, so it’ll be good for them to have the time to visit.

I had one of those things happen to me on Sunday that reminded me that our guardian angels are everywhere. On my way to church I noticed that my door a jar light was on in the car and discovered it was my door. When I got to the church parking lot I tried to get it to close and it wouldn’t. The nicest lady came by and said she’d call her brother and see if he knew how to fix it. I said I had to go into church and just left it the way it was. As I was sitting there in the pew, here she came. She said she fixed it as her brother told her how over the cell phone and she just wanted to let me know. I gave her a big hug and promised extra prayers for her. I didn’t know what else to do, but thank her.

It was still working when I returned home and I hope it will again this morning. It probably just froze up as I took the car to the car wash on Friday and then it went down below freezing again on Saturday. Everything is frozen here.

There still are lots very nice people in this world and I met one of them.

Have a great day all ! Another wonderful one on the Way !

TODAY’S PRAYERS

Lord, we ask you to inspire us to encourage others
by what we say and do today.
Amen


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’S TRIVIA

Today is the Chinese; New Year, celebrating the Year of the Ox

Today is National Seed Swap Day. Take extra seeds wherever you go today and swap with other gardeners. New seeds, new gardening friends, and maybe some expert planting advice

Today is Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day, a day to celebrate the joy Bubble Wrap brings to our lives

Spouse's Day is a time to enjoy and appreciate your better half. You can use this day as a prelude or warm up to Valentine's Day, perhaps. But, it’s not as much of a gift giving event. Rather, use it as a time to show your spouse that you care and appreciate all of the things that he/she does for you and for the household. Over the long years of a relationship, its easy to take for granted the many things your spouse does. He/she's always there. They do so many big and little things as a routine event. So, take today to notice and to say thanks.

Today is National Peanut Brittle Day

Today is Michigan Admission Day. Michigan became the 26th U.S. state on this date in 1837. The state bird is the robin; the state flower: apple blossom; state tree: white pine; and the state fish: trout

1939: Filming began on the film Gone With the Wind

1988: The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical Phantom of the Opera opened at Broadway's Majestic Theater

TODAY’S SMILE

Here's a list of funny word/thought combinations...
1. A bicycle can't stand alone because it is two-tired.
2. What's the definition of a will? (It's a dead giveaway).
3. Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.
4. A backward poet writes inverse.
5. In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism, it's your count that votes.
7. With her marriage she got a new name and a dress.
8. Show me a piano falling down a mineshaft and I'll show you A-flat minor.
9. When a clock is hungry it goes back four seconds.
10. The man who fell into an upholstery machine is fully recovered.
11. You feel stuck with your debt if you can't budge it.
12. Local Area Network in Australia: the LAN down under.
13. He often broke into song because he couldn't find the key.
14. A lot of money is tainted. 'Taint yours and 'taint mine.
15. A boiled egg in the morning is hard to beat.
16. He had a photographic memory which was never developed.
17. A plateau is a high form of flattery.
18. Those who get too big for their britches will be exposed in the end.
19. Those who jump off a Paris bridge are in Seine.
20. When an actress saw her first strands of gray hair she thought she'd dye.
21. Bakers trade bread recipes on a knead to know basis.
22. Marathon runners with bad footwear suffer the agony of defeat.
23. Every calendar's days are numbered

One More…

I figured that at age seven it was inevitable for my son to begin having doubts about Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the Tooth Fairy.

Sure enough, that day came. One day he said with an ominous tone, "Mom, I know the secret of Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the Tooth Fairy."Taking a deep breath, I feared his innocence had been betrayed. I asked him carefully, "What is that?"Without hesitating he replied,

They're all nocturnal

TODAY’S WORD

incipient in-SIP-ee-uhnt, adjective:
Beginning to exist or appear

Incipient is derived from Latin incipere, "to undertake, to begin" (literally "to take in"), from in-, "in" + capere, "to take." It is related to inception, beginning, commencement

TODAY’S REFLECTION

As he passed by the Sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and his brother Andrew casting their nets into the sea; they were fishermen. Jesus said to them,Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men

Mark 1: 14-20

Imagine what Christ’s life must have appeared to be to the people of Nazareth and of its value in his Father’s eyes. Our lives have from our Christian faith the same sense of worth. If we live as God wants us to live, sustained by prayer that Christ has taught us, our life is more than just the jobs that people see us doing, they are the work and love of God

TODAY’S ADVICE

Add a pinch of baking soda to gravy to dissolve excess grease

53 DAYS UNTIL SPRING!
AND 67 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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