ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: For Saturday, April 4th, 2009

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, April 4, 2009

For Saturday, April 4th, 2009

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
APRIL 4th, 2009

TODAY'S THOUGHT

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it

Harold S Hulbert

TODAY’S ACTION

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 QUOTE

A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test

Dr. Roger MacDonald

IT’S SATURDAY !!

Today is the Family Easter Celebration. I can take my time around here this morning as I won’t go there til afternoon sometime. DD wants us there by 2:00 for sure. DS#1 and his family will swing by and get me on their way into town. He says they’ll probably pick lunch and bring it here to eat before going to DD’s.

I’ll have my new camera with me and will be taking pictures for everyone to see and should have them posted on my blog ‘What’s New at My House’ for you all to see tomorrow.

The weather reports vary from a high of 43 to 50 today and windy with mostly cloudy skies. I’m hoping for no rain or snow.

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

TODAY’S PRAYERS

Keep me strong to endure all that you have blessed me with
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 National Love Our Children Day

Today is Vitamin-C Day, marking this date in 1932 when C.C. King first isolated the vitamin at the University of Pittsburgh

Ballroom Dancing Day - We celebrate the birthday of Arthur Murray, famous ballroom dancing instructor, by going ballroom dancing. Dance up a storm!

1850: The city of Los Angeles was incorporated

1896: Gold is discovered in the Yukon

TODAY’S SMILE

A FEW SHORT ONES TODAY

FISH SANDWICH

An optimist is someone who goes after Moby Dick in a rowboat and takes the tartar sauce with him

CITY THAT NEVER SLEEPS

Our family was dazzled by the sights and the bustling crowds during a visit to Manhattan. "This is the city that never sleeps," I told my eleven-year-old daughter. "That's probably because there's a Starbucks on every corner," she observed

DON'T IGNOR THE KIDS

The 12-year-old boy stood patiently beside the clock counter while the store clerk waited on all of the adult customers first. Finally he got around to the youngster, who made his purchase and hurried out to the curb, where his father was impatiently waiting in his car. "What took you so long, son?" he asked. "The man waited on everybody in the store before me," the boy replied. "But I got even. How?"I wound and set all the alarm clocks while I was waiting," the youngster explained happily. "It's going to be fun at eight o'clock

SOMETHING TO DO FOR LENT

Today give a stranger one of your smiles.
It might be the only sunshine he'll see all day

TODAY’S REFLECTION

…he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the nation, and not only for the nation, but also to gather into one the dispersed children of God.
John 11:51-52
Today I will reflect on Christ’s tremendous sacrifice of love for us

TODAY’S ADVICE

Sniff lavender oil to reduce anxiety

78 DAYS UNTIL SUMMER!

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:

Pamela said...: You always have such interesting things in your blog! Loved the kid with the clocks! Too funny!
Have a very nice time with your family today. Enjoy each moment.
Looking forward to the pictures, as always! You know I love your pics!; April 4, 2009 at 2:12 PM
Kath said...: I hope you all enjoy lunch DS1 brings along before a great day with your family.Snap Snap looking forward to all those pics you take with your new camera.I Chuckled at the clock story He-He.Safe journeys to everyone there and back home.ENJOY!! you deserve it all so much.Take Care God Bless Kath xx; April 4, 2009 at 4:16 PM

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