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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, April 16, 2009

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
APRIL 16th, 2009

TODAY'S THOUGHT

There are the NOWS, WAS’S, and GONNA-BE’S. A NOW is the most precious thing you can have, because a NOW goes by with the speed of light. Let’s say you’re having a beautiful NOW that you want to hold on to forever. No matter how much you want to hold on to it, it’s going to be a WAS. A lot of people get stuck in and can’t let go of the WAS’S. Those WAS’S get heavy, and they start to decay into SHOULDA-COULDAS. And they never have time for the new NOW

Sid Caesar

JUST FOR TODAY
I will improve my mind. I will read something that requires effort, thought and concentration. I will not be a mental loafer.
We all need to look for the silver linings in our day-to-day lives

TODAY’S QUOTE

No matter what accomplishments you achieve, somebody helps you

Althea Gibson

IT’S THURSDAY !!

This is the last day of my work week. I’ll be off to the camper after work.
The weather is supposed to be sunny and in the high 50’s. That sounds great to me. We’ve had a lot of rain lately and it’s time for it to take a break.

I’ve needed a vacation day for quite awhile now so I’m really going to enjoy my Friday off. DD and her hubby will be coming in to camp sometime Friday too and will bring my new deck furniture for me. I really wouldn’t be able to camp like I do without their help and that of DS#1 and his family too.

DS#1 and family should be coming in on Saturday and will be busy cleaning and opening up their camper which is what I did last weekend. I’m glad that much is behind me and I can just rest this weekend.

I’ll be back with the newsletter come Monday morning!

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

TODAY’S PRAYERS

Caring God, help us to rest in your love and be renewed by your promise to be with us always
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 Stress Awareness Day, always the day after income tax are due

Today is International Moment of Laughter Day, time to set aside a moment to laugh

Today is National High Five Day

Saint Bernadette Feast Day - A shepherdess who had many visions of the Virgin Mary, she is patron saint of shepherds. Her shrine in Lourdes, France, is a great place of healing

1867: Wilbur Wright was born in Millville, Indiana

1926 - The Book-of-the-Month Club in New York City chose as its first selection, Lolly Willowes or The Loving Huntsman by Sylvia Townsend as the offering to its 4,750 members

1935: The radio comedy program Fibber McGee and Molly premiered on the NBC Blue Network

1972: Apollo 16 blasted off on a voyage to the moon

TODAY’S SMILE

They think they can make fuel from horse manure... Now I don't know if your car will be able to get thirty miles to the gallon, but it's sure gonna put a stop to siphoning.

Billie Holliday

TODAY’S REFLECTION

I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. Philippians 4:11

We often struggle to accept the Bible's teaching that contentment has nothing to do with our wardrobe, our bank account, or whether we have steak or fish sticks for supper. It is not material prosperity but godliness with contentment that the apostle Paul called great gain

God's in heaven –All's right with the world.

Robert Browning

TODAY’S ADVICE

Put rice grains in your fishing tackle box to absorb moisture and prevent rusty hooks

66 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:

krissy knox said...: You had so many gold nuggets in this post today! I think the last phrase was the best -- May there be a miracle in your life today, and may you have the eyes to see it! -- You know what, Ma? Every day contains some miracles, I believe, if we take some time to look for them. Each day is special. Each day on Twitter I write to my friends, "Make today special, it is the ONLY today you will ever have." It reminds me and everyone else that there will be miracles for that day, if we only open our eyes to see them. And some of them we will have to make. We will have to be willing to stretch and grow when the Lord calls us to. Furthernmore, each days is important, and we need to live each day in the here and now. That kind of gets back to the first thing you said, about the "nows" in the first paragraph, it all ties together. Very sound teaching, and yes, very Catholic!

Take care my friend, :)
krissy knox :)
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www.twitter.com/iamkrissy; April 17, 2009 at 2:51 AM
krissy knox said...: You had so many gold nuggets in this post today! I think the last phrase was the best -- May there be a miracle in your life today, and may you have the eyes to see it! -- You know what, Ma? Every day contains some miracles, I believe, if we take some time to look for them. Each day is special. Each day on Twitter I write to my friends, "Make today special, it is the ONLY today you will ever have." It reminds me and everyone else that there will be miracles for that day, if we only open our eyes to see them. And some of them we will have to make. We will have to be willing to stretch and grow when the Lord calls us to. Furthernmore, each days is important, and we need to live each day in the here and now. That kind of gets back to the first thing you said, about the "nows" in the first paragraph, it all ties together. Very sound teaching, and yes, very Catholic!

Take care my friend, :)
krissy knox :)
visit my main blog: Sometimes I ThinkHey! Former AOL Journalers -- please add your blogs to our directory of blogs: from jland to bloggerfollow me on twitter:
www.twitter.com/iamkrissy; April 17, 2009 at 2:51 AM

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