ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: For Wednesday, April 15th, 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

Wednesday, April 15, 2009

For Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
APRIL 15th, 2009

TODAY'S THOUGHT

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom

Elizabeth Gaskell

JUST FOR TODAY

We all need to look for the silver linings in our day-to-day lives

JUST FOR TODAY:

I will accept what is. I will face reality. I will correct those things I can correct and accept those I cannot

Live your life each day as you would climb a mountain. An occasional glance towards the summit keeps the goal in mind, but many beautiful scenes are to be observed from each new vintage point.
Harold B Melchart

TODAY’S QUOTE

What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived at to make life more livable

Louise Nevelson

IT’S WEDNESDAY !!
AND
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO DS#2
May the dear Lord bless you today and always!

It hardly seems possible that this is the middle of April already.
Time will speed up now that nicer weather is coming our way. The long days of winter seemed to drag by.

Tomorrow I’ll be heading to the campground right after work so Thursday morning’s newsletter will be the last one for this week. This will be the first of my long 3 day weekends. I saved my vacation days just so I could have them for camping.

Hopefully no more critters invaded my space.

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

TODAY’S PRAYERS

Risen Lord, open my eyes so that I might know that you are beside me on my daily journey
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 All!

TODAY’S TRIVIA

Today is Income Tax Pay Day and Quarterly Estimated Federal Income Tax Payers’ Due Date. It’s also Rubber Eraser Day and National Gripers Day

Today is National Take a Wild Guess Day, a day honoring hunches, guesses, speculation, and other forms of intuitive intelligence

Today is National Fast Food Day

Today is Fluff Appreciation Day. Find something fluffy and appreciate it

1934: Comic strip wife Blondie Bumstead gave birth to Alexander. She called him Baby Dumpling

1955: The first franchised McDonalds opened in Des Plains, Illinois. Ray Kroc, a milk shake machine salesman, had gotten the idea from a hamburger place in San Bernardino, California, run by the McDonald brothers. An opening day hamburger was 15 cents

TODAY’S SMILE

All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned From LEGOs

Life might be less complicated for all of us if we each received our own LEGO kit at birth.

Yes, I have learned that: Size doesn’t matter.

When stepped on in the dark, a 2X2 LEGO brick causes the same amount of pain as a 2X8 brick.

All LEGO men are created equal (1.5625 inches tall).

What they become is limited only by imagination.

There is strength in numbers. When the bricks stick together, great things can be accomplished.

Playtime is important.

Sometimes it doesn’t matter what you are building, as long as you’re having fun.

Disaster happens. But the pieces can be put back together again.

Every brick has a purpose. Some are made for a specific spot – most can adapt almost anywhere – but every one will fit somewhere.

Color doesn’t matter. A blue brick will fit in the same space as a red brick.

No one is indispensable. If one brick is unavailable, another can take its place.

It doesn’t always turn out as planned.

Sometimes it turns out better.

If it doesn’t, you can always try again.

TODAY’S REFLECTION

Mary went and announced to the disciples, “I have seen the Lord,”and then reported what he had told her

John 20:18

Mary Magdalen is sometimes called the first preacher or the apostle to the apostles, since she is the first to proclaim the good news of the Resurrection: ‘’I have seen the Lord.’’ That first sermon might be a model to all preachers and a model to us in our work of witnessing to Christ

Like Mary, we must have a heart that’s quiet and still, longing and listening, ever ready to hear Him as He call calls us each by name. His love must be part of all we do each day