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Decide to be happy today, to live with what is yours – your family, your business, your job, your luck. If you can’t have what you like, maybe you can like what you have.

Just for today, be kind, cheerful, agreeable, responsive, caring, and understanding. Be your best, dress your best, talk softly, and look for the bright side of things. Praise people for what they do and do not criticize them for what they cannot do. If someone does something stupid, forgive and forget. After all, it’s just for one day.

Who knows, it might turn out to be a nice day.

THE BRIGHT SIDE

I'm looking out the window
and the day is drab and dreary,
And I'm trying to console myself
by thinking something cheery
I know it's simply horrible
to get in such a slump
And I also know it's up to me
to get across the hump
And I realize I'm selfish
to mention this to you
For, gee, you might be feeling
a little 'low-down' too
but often when I feel like this
I tell myself it's true
That I am not the only one
who feels 'low-down and blue'
And just knowing there are others
who feel the way I do
Renews my sinking spirit
and keeps me smiling through
and know that it's natural
to take a 'spirit-dive'
Provides the spunk and courage
to hang on and survive
And while there are a lot of moods
that we can drive away
by looking on the BRIGHT SIDE
in all we do and say,
There also is a loneliness
that God meant us to feel
But, gee, it sure is mighty hard
to know which one is real
And I'd hate to be a 'sad sack'
who never saw the sun
And just complained that every day
was such a dreary one.
But I know that all the dark days
are just part of God's plan
We should accept them graciously
and do the best we can...
So I'll just keep on trying
for I know it's 'Gospel true'
there never was a cloud so dark
the sun could not shine through!

by Helen Steiner Rice

On the Bright Side Newsletter

I send this little letter out each morning to all my family and friends and even to a few people that I've never met. Many of them send it on to others too. So in order to make it available to more people I post the 'brighter side' of the news here each day in this journal.

The letter began as an effort to keep in touch with my family as they are spread out in all directions. My family, friends and God are the most important things in my life.

You'll find quotes, poems and stories and even a few recipes included in this newsletter. I try to find something new each day to share.

In a world that very often publishes only the dark side of things I felt that others would be encouraged to hear about
'the bright side'.

'On Ya'-ma

Thursday, February 26, 2009

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
FEBRUARY 26TH, 2009

TODAY'S THOUGHT

The unfortunate thing about this world is that good habits are so much easier to give up than bad ones

Somerset Maugham

TODAY’S ACTION

The best way to break a bad habit is to drop it

Leo Aikman

TODAY’S QUOTE

Cultivate only the habits that you are willing should master you

Elbert Hubbard

IT’S THURSDAY !!

We are on the downhill slide now into the weekend. The weather has warmed up into the 40’s and lots more melting of snow has been going on. I noticed the last of the piles have disappeared at work, but my front yard where it is shady all day still has some.

The days are really getting longer now. I’ve not been totally in the dark on my way into work for the last couple days. March 8th we set the clocks ahead so for a couple of weeks then I’ll go back to being in the dark, but that won’t last long. I love being able to see where I’m going in the morning.

One of my online devotional sites had this to say about Ash Wednesday.

Today is not about doom, gloom or negativity. It’s a day to celebrate the gift of now and the gift of today. Ash Wednesday reminds us that we don’t go on forever and the coming weeks of Lent are an opportunity to delight in the gifts of each and every day

It is so true. We really need to appreciate and celebrate each day.

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

TODAY’S PRAYERS

Lord, may everything we do begin with your inspiration, continue with your help, and reach perfection under your guidance
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!

TODAY’S TRIVIA

Today is For Pete's Sake Day, a day to wonder who is Pete and why we do or don't do things for his sake

It's Tell a Fairy Tale Day . Today is a great opportunity to read your kids. If the kids aren't around, its certainly okay to read them alone. We all know that everybody loves a good fairy tale. To qualify as a fairy tale, a story does not have to begin with Once upon a time... But, they usually do. It is a requirement that the story has a happy ending.

It’s National Pistachio Day. Pistachio day is a nutty day
Nutty Pistachio Facts:
Pistachios grow on trees. They are native to the Middle East.
Its a long wait to get the first nut. A pistachio tree takes 7-10 years to mature.
California is the major producer in the U.S.
Pistachios are harvested in September by machines that shake the trees. It less than a minute.
The red dye is added to the nuts is only due to consumer demand for the color.
Its open hull is unique. The nut is ripe when the hull splits open.
People in the Middle East call it the "smiling nut" and in China its called the "happy nut".
Pistachios are nutritious, so eat them up

1846: American Baptist music evangelist George Stebbins was born. He wrote, I’ve Found A Friend, Take Time to Be Holy, Have Thine Own Way, Lord, and Jesus Is Tenderly Calling Thee Home

1919: Congress established Grand Canyon National Park in Arizona.
The Grand Canyon National Park covers 1,218,375 acres. It measures 18 miles across, over 200 miles long and is a mile from its top to its bottom.

SOMETHING TO DO FOR LENT

Schedule a fifteen minute period of silence today to listen to your heart and to the Lord speaking to you

TODAY’S LENTEN REFLECTION
If anyone wishes to come after Me,
he must deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me.
Luke 9: 23
I will follow Christ daily; even with it is difficult to do so

TODAY’S ADVICE

Soft-looking or delicate clouds foretell fine weather, with moderate or light breezes

22 DAYS UNTIL SPRING!
AND 36 DAYS UNTIL CAMPING SEASON BEGINS
10 DAYS UNTIL DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME 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

2 comments:

Marie Rayner said...: I heard once that it takes 21 days to form a habit. I wonder if it works the same way to break a habit?; February 26, 2009 at 8:28 AM
Melissa said...: I am a quote junkie and there are always so many to collect here. I love the book ones! And do you know what I really love? I love the graphic of that wonderful chair just begging me to sit down and read my stack of books!

Thanks so much for all your sweet comments about Sarah and Bennie's baby news. I know that only a grandmother can truly appreciate the joy we feel. You are so very sweet!; February 26, 2009 at 8:54 AM

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