ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
FEBRUARY 12TH, 2009
TODAY'S THOUGHT
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.
George Washington Carver
TODAY’S ACTION
Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house... let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting
Mother Teresa
TODAY’S QUOTE
Always, love is a choice. You come up against scores of opportunities every day to love or not to love. You encounter hundreds of small chances to please your friends, delight your Lord and encourage your family. That's why love and obedience are intimately linked--you can't have one without the other.
Joni Eareckson Tada
IT’S THURSDAY !!
Cold and Snow return to northern Ohio today. We got a lot of rain yesterday and I was some what surprised to see the green of winter wheat coming up in the farmers fields on my way home from work. Some parts of the fields were under water due to melting snow and all that rain. But it is a sure sign that spring is on the way.
Today I have more on DS#1 HUGE sandwich saga…the gang at work are heading to the Ohio Deli on Friday to attempt the DAGWOOD
Here is the picture if you can believe it. The person in it is unidentified. It is not DS#1.
If they eat all that without being sick I’ll be amazed. I’ll let you all know when I find out what happened.
The BOSS did keep me very busy making his lists yesterday and I’ll be doing more of the same today. I get to look up a current price for everything on line too. It makes me very thankful that it was not my house that got flooded out.
Have a great day all ! Another wonderful one on the Way !
TODAY’S PRAYERS
Jesus, in my dealings with other people, let me focus on their hearts, sense their values and encourage them in using their gifts.
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
Abraham Lincoln's birthday. He was the 16th U.S. president. Lincoln was born on February 12, 1809, in present-day Larue County, Kentucky. His birthday was declared a holiday in 1892.
In addition to serving as president during the civil war and saving the Union, Lincoln wrote the Emancipation Proclamation that ended slavery in the U.S. forever. He also wrote and gave The Gettysburg Address, memorializing the bloodiest and most important battle of the Civil War. Gettysburg proved to be the turning point of the war
Today is
Chocolate Day
Today is
Lost Penny Day, a day to gather up all those pennies stashed in jars, candy dishes, and coffee cans and get them back into circulation …always on Abraham Lincoln's birthday
1915: The cornerstone for the
Lincoln Memorial was laid in Washington D.C
Time marches on. History tells us Lincoln once walked nine miles to borrow a library book; so now they close the libraries on his birthday!
He ...
- lost his job in 1832.
- was defeated for the legislature in 1833.
- failed at business in 1833.
- suffered a nervous breakdown in 1836.
- was defeated for speaker of the Illinois state legislature in 1838.
- was defeated for nomination to Congress in 1848.
- lost re-nomination to Congress in 1849.
- was defeated for the Senate in 1854.
- was defeated for nomination for Vice-President in 1856.
- was defeated for the Senate in 1858.
- became the sixteenth President of the U.S. in 1861.
TODAY’S SMILE
LOVE Hurts
One spring morning I was walking along a path in the woods near my home. Suddenly a rabbit bound across the path. This rabbit looked a bit roughed up; its fur was sparse and uneven.
As I stepped closer, the rabbit casually hopped to a grove of small trees a few yards away. As I resumed my walk, a slight movement in the grass caught my eye. Stooping down, I saw four tiny creatures in a clump of grass. They were rabbit kits. Only two and a half inches long, hairless, and blind, they were totally helpless. Their nest had been dug down into the earth.
Leaves and grass had been arranged to form a camouflaged home. But the most striking feature was that the inside of the nest had been completely lined with fur--rabbit fur.
Then it hit me. That scraggy-furred rabbit I had just seen was the mother of this precious litter. Not only had she carried her young through pregnancy, endured labor and delivery pains, prepared a nest, and patiently nursed and protected them to this point, she had also given of herself.
Painfully, she had pulled out great clumps of fur to line the nest, thus providing a soft, warm environment for her fragile kits.
author unknown
TODAY’S WORD
tome \tohm\, noun:
a large, often scholarly, book
from Middle French tome, from Latin tomus "section of a book, tome," from Greek tomos, volume, section of a book
TODAY’S REFLECTION
Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
1 Corinthians 13:7
When our commitments are tested in the fires of life, no matter what difficulties we face, may God grant us a greater experience of His enduring love and the grace to demonstrate it each day
TODAY’S ADVICE
Clothing zippers will last longer if you close them before washing
36 DAYS UNTIL SPRING!
AND 50 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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