For Sunday, February 1st, 2009

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
FEBRUARY 1ST, 2009


TODAY'S THOUGHT

Anyone can catch your eye,
but it takes someone special to catch your heart.

Author Unknown



TODAY’S ACTION

Let us always meet each other with smile,
for the smile is the beginning of love

Mother Teresa



TODAY’S QUOTE

Love puts the fun in together,
the sad in apart, and the joy in a heart.

Author Unknown


IT’S SUNDAY !!

I’m up and sipping the good coffee and looking forward to a slow start today. Church isn’t till 11 so I have plenty of time to relax a while.

Yesterday was a great day and I really enjoyed being with my babes and celebrating with them. I’ve put pictures in the side bar of my journal page ‘What’s New at My House’. The link is always at the end of this newsletter.

Tomorrow we’ll all be eagerly awaiting the Ground Hog Prediction for this year. There are various woodchucks in different states. Here in Ohio we have Buckeye Chuck. The one that seems to be the most popular is Punxsutawney Phil in Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania.

In weather lore, if a groundhog, also known as a woodchuck or marmot emerges from its burrow on this day and fails to see its shadow because the weather is cloudy, winter will soon end. If on the other hand, it is sunny and the groundhog sees its shadow, the groundhog will supposedly retreat into its burrow, and winter will continue for 6 more weeks

We’ll see…

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


TODAY’S PRAYERS

Help us to remain positive -
encouraging and appreciating
one another,looking upon people
in the same way that you do.
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


The word February comes from the Latin word februare, meaning "to purify." The ancient Romans had their annual purification ceremony during this time each year

February is National Weddings Month. Most engagements take place between Christmas and Valentine's Day, and most future brides start serious planning in February for summer weddings

February is American Heart Month, National African-American History Month, Bake for Family Fun Month, Bird Feeding Month, Care About Your Indoor Air Month, Children's Dental Health Month, Grapefruit Month, Humpback Whale Awareness Month, Creative Romance Month, National Laugh Friendly Month, Library Lovers Month, Mend a Broken Heart Month, Pet Dental Health Month, Youth Leadership Month, Women's Heart Month, and in Illinois, it’s Return Shopping Carts to the Supermarket Month

National Freedom Day celebrates freedom from slavery, and recognizes that America is a symbol of freedom.
National Freedom Day was established in 1948 to remind us that America stands for, and is a symbol of freedom for all people. The roots of this special day come directly from the end of slavery and the signing of the 13th amendment outlawing slavery.
Celebrate this day by reflecting upon your own freedoms that you enjoy by being fortunate enough to be in America. Millions of people in the world are not free.

Today is National Wear Red Day, an a fun way to kick off National Heart Month

Today is Super Bowl Sunday, with Super Bowl-43 between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Arizona Cardinals played this evening at Tampa Bay, Florida's Raymond James Stadium

Today is Hula in the Coola Day, time for fun at a winter luau

Today is Robinson Crusoe Day, a day to be adventurous and self-reliant

Today is St.Brigid's day. A day to reflect on all our present blessings and all the good around us. She had time for everyone including the poor but above all she inspired people to greater things. Using rushes she wove them all into a cross, to remind us that all the different strands of our lives are connected. They are connected not by chance but by the gentle presence of God in our lives. We ask her many blessings on us today


On this day in 1901 in Cadiz, Ohio, William Clark Gable, King of the Movies, was born. In 1939, Clark became Rhett Butler in the movie for which he will always be remembered, another Oscar-winner, Gone with the Wind

1788 - Isaac Briggs and William Longstreet patented the steamboat

1862 - The Battle Hymn of the Republic was first published in Atlantic Monthly. The lyric was the work of Julia Ward Howe.

1920: The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Mounties, were created

1968 - Elvis Presley celebrated the birth of his daughter, Lisa Marie

TODAY’S SMILE

SUPER BOWL FACTOIDS

In the USA - more toilets flush at half time than any other time of the year.

Super Bowl Sunday is the most popular party day of the year - surpassing New Year's Eve.

It is also the slowest weekend for weddings.

Super Bowl Monday sales of antacids increase by more than 20% over other Mondays.

Dominos Pizza sales typically double on Super Bowl Sunday.

Last year Americans ate more than 8.5 million pounds of tortilla chips on this day.


NOT SO DEEP THOUGHTS

I started out with nothing. . . I still have most of it.

I finally got my head together, now my body is falling apart.

Funny, I don't remember being absent minded.

If all is not lost, where is it?

It is easier to get older than it is to get wiser.

The first rule of holes: If you are in one, stop digging.

I went to school to become a wit, only got halfway through.

It was all so different before everything changed.

Nostalgia isn't what is used to be.

I wish the buck stopped here. I could use a few

TODAY’S WORD

canine KEY-nahyn, adjective:
1. of or like a dog or member of the dog family
noun:1. any animal belonging to a group of meat-eaters including dogs, foxes, and wolves
adjective:1. pertaining to a canine tooth
noun:1. one of the four teeth next to the incisors; cuspid

from Latin caninus "of the dog," from canis "dog," from Proto Indo-European base kwon- "dog." The adjective is attested from 1613 and the noun meaning dog is first recorded 1869

TODAY’S REFLECTION

Faith is confident assurance concerning what we hope for, and conviction about things we do not see.

Hebrews 11:1

Faith is an assurance. This confident assurance concerns what we hope for but can't see. We are saved by faith in Jesus

Faith is a gift from God. He gives us the gift of faith by giving us Himself. We accept the Gift of God Himself by totally giving our lives to Jesus

The purpose of life is to have faith, grow in faith, and walk by faith in God

TODAY’S ADVICE

Little strokes fell great oaks

Benjamin Franklin

47 DAYS UNTIL SPRING!
AND 61 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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