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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

Tuesday, February 3, 2009

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
FEBRUARY 3RD, 2009

TODAY'S THOUGHT

If you touch a spider web anywhere, you set the whole thing trembling. . . . As we move around this world and as we act with kindness, perhaps, or with indifference, or with hostility toward the people we meet, we too are setting the great spider web a-tremble. The life that I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place and time my touch will be felt. Our lives are linked. No person is an island.

Frederick Buechner

TODAY’S ACTION

If you judge people you have no time to love them.

Mother Teresa

TODAY’S QUOTE

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Merry Browne

IT’S TUESDAY !!

Unbelievable but true – we had another sunny day yesterday with temps in the 30’s. What a relief. I needed a break so I could prepare for more cold and snow. It will be and cold and snowing (only an inch or two) here again for the next few days and then it will warm up for us by the weekend. They say it could rain Saturday and Sunday. I’m hoping not too much as there is still all this snow to melt.

Enough about the weather…after all the Groundhog saw his shadow and there will be 6 more weeks of winter.

The week ahead has nothing but work on the calendar for me til the weekend and right now that looks pretty quiet too. Quiet days to dream about Spring.

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

TODAY’S PRAYERS

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand

William Penn

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 National Carrot Cake Day

Today is Endangered Species Day. President Richard Nixon signed the Endangered Species Act into law on this date in 1973

Today is Take a Cruise Day. So many cruise ships, so little time!Taking a cruise has become the vacation of choice for all ages. You don't have to bother with hotels or restaurants - just board your ship and sail away with everything provided. The only problem is... how much food can one person eat!

Today is the feast of St.Blaise whose life was very simple and ordinary. Yet he is known worldwide for his care of those who were sick and particularly those with ailments of the throat.

American Painters Day - We honor all American painters on this, the birthday of illustrator Norman Rockwell. Norman Rockwell was born in New York City on February 3, 1894

1870: The 15th Amendment to the Constitution was ratified. It granted that the right of citizens to vote shall not be denied on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude

TODAY’S SMILE

Strong Woman vs. A Woman of Strength

A strong woman works out every day to keep her body in shape . . .but a woman of strength builds relationships to keep her soul in shape.

A strong woman isn't afraid of anything . . .but a woman of strength shows courage in the midst of her fear.

A strong woman won't let anyone get the best of her . . .but a woman of strength gives the best of herself to everyone.

A strong woman makes mistakes and avoids the same in the future . . .a woman of strength realizes life's mistakes can also be unexpected blessings and capitalizes on them.

A strong woman wears a look of confidence on her face . . .but a woman of strength wears grace.

A strong woman has faith that she is strong enough for the journey . . .but a woman of strength has faith that it is in the journey that she will become strong.

Author Unknown

TODAY’S WORD

chaff chaf, noun, verb:

1. the stiff strawlike part of grains such as wheat, oats, rye
verb:1. to make good-natured fun of someone
noun:1. worthless material; detritus

Old English ceaf, from Proto-Germanic kaf-, kef

TODAY’S REFLECTION

She opens her mouth in wisdom,

And the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.

Proverbs 31:26

Someone said that simple courtesy seems to have been buried. No one bothers to be polite anymore. There's no time now to be civil. "Please" and "Thank you" have disappeared from our everyday vocabulary.Pascal said, "Kind words produce their own image in men's souls, and a beautiful image it is. They soothe and quiet and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour, morose, unkind feelings. We have not yet begun to use kind words in such abundance as they ought to be used."

TODAY’S ADVICE

Pesto sauce will keep its bright color in pasta that is cooked with a few drops of lemon juice

45 DAYS UNTIL SPRING!
AND 59 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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3 comments:

Kath said...: I am pleased you enjoyed the short spell of sunshine,we are having a little of it today here where I live.It isn't thawing the snow.The streets are like glass sheets very very slippy.I have just been for a short walk.Brr it was cold out there.The smile for today was very interesting to read I enjoyed it very much.Stay warm Ma and have a lovely quiet Tuesday.Take Care God Bless Kath xx; February 3, 2009 at 6:57 AM
Kathy said...: I haven't been social lately. Sorry. I love reading the things you post here.; February 3, 2009 at 6:33 PM
Marie Rayner said...: As usual there is some great food for thought here Ma! I especially loved the first one about the spider's web. We just never know do we?; February 4, 2009 at 2:28 AM

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