ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

THE BRIGHT SIDE

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

Saturday, March 7, 2009

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
MARCH 7TH, 2009

TODAY'S THOUGHT

A church sign…

To handle yourself, use your head.

To handle others, use your heart

TODAY’S ACTION

Know your gifts and share them

Les Brown

TODAY’S QUOTE

Happiness held is the seed;
happiness shared is the flower

Author Unknown

IT’S SATURDAY !!

I’m really taking it slow and easy here this morning. These work weeks just wear me out. Today I’ll be busy as this afternoon I’ll go to my birthday lunch and then on to DD’s for the party.

I need to do so many things, but don’t feel like it at all. Tomorrow is another day so we’ll see how it goes…

Tonight we set the clocks forward before going to bed so we’ll loose an hour’s sleep. Not really, but I always feel like I’m off an hour when we do this. My auto alarm has been waking me up about 4:30 in the mornings, so maybe it won’t be too bad.

When I went out at lunch time yesterday it was actually warm enough to go with out a coat for the first time this year. It was very windy and no sunshine so by the time I left for the day I put the coat back on.

We have the promise of rain all weekend. That is quite different from most of my birthdays. Usually we have snow and lots of it.

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

TODAY’S PRAYERS

Lord Jesus, teach me to follow your example. Increase my faith, hope and charity so that I may struggle to turn hatred to love and conflict to peace
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 Genealogy Day, celebrating one of the world's fastest growing hobbies

Today is Baseball Hat Appreciation Day

The nation switches to Daylight Saving Time tomorrow morning at 2:00. Early birds will spring forward an hour tonight at bedtime

Distinguished Service Medal Birthday - In 1918, President Wilson authorized a medal recognizing those who performed exceptionally meritorious service during the war

1854: Charles Miller received a patent for a sewing machine that stitches buttonholes.
1876: Alexander Graham Bell received a patent for his telephone

1897: The world's first corn flakes were served to Dr. John Kellogg's patients at a Battle Creek, Michigan, mental hospital

1933: The Monopoly game is invented

1955 - Peter Pan, with Mary Martin and Cyril Richard, was presented as a television special for the first time

TODAY’S SMILE

Rambling Thoughts:

Some folks are so eager to find fault,

you'd think there's a reward.

I only use deodorant under one arm,

so I know what I would have smelled like.

Don't worry about what people think, they don't do it very often.

I wish my mouth had a backspace key.

Many great discoveries are made by not following instructions.

The older I get, the better I was.

A pessimist is someone who complains

about the noise when opportunity knocks.

What a tangled web parents weave,

thinking children are naive.

Some rights are worth dying for.

The right of way is not one of them.

They call it a tax return . . as if the money you pay

was going to make a round trip.

There is nothing wrong with having nothing to say ...

unless you insist on saying it.

Author Unknown

SOMETHING TO DO FOR LENT

In a prayerful spirit, get up early and watch the sun rise

TODAY’S REFLECTION

…Love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you…
Matthew 5:4
Today I will pray for someone who has wronged me

TODAY’S ADVICE

A dry and cold March never begs its bread

13 DAYS UNTIL SPRING!
AND 27 DAYS UNTIL CAMPING SEASON BEGINS

1 DAY 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...: Our clocks don't go forward for a few weeks yet. I wonder why it doesn't happen at the same time? I'm with you on taking it easy at the weekend. I work so hard during the week that on the weekend I like to just laze around as much as I can! I keep thinking of all the things I am going to finally get to do when I retire, but then Todd tells me that he is busier now that he is retired than he was when he was working! It's crazy! Have a great weekend!; March 7, 2009 at 11:06 AM
Kath said...: Our clocks go forward the last week/end in March.Here it has been very cool again Ma.You just relax and enjoy your time at the week/end off work the rest will wait.Have agreat day and a wonderful B/Day tomorrow.I chuckled at the deodarant phrase LOL!!Take Care God Bless Kath x; March 7, 2009 at 3:39 PM

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