For Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
AUGUST 19TH, 2009


TODAY'S THOUGHT

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing

Benjamin Franklin


JUST FOR TODAY

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

Just for today: I will let go and let God. The One Power and Presence never lets me down. I will release any worry or struggle and accept the comfort, inspiration, and abundance of God




TODAY’S QUOTE

Select a few people to be particularly kind to today, those you were a little harsh with yesterday

Norman Vincent Peale



IT’S WEDNESDAY !!

OVER THE HUMP DAY!

I’ve been having some busy days at work so I’m glad that this week is half over. Of course it’s a little more than that as far as work goes because I have Friday off for a vacation day.

Yesterday was still hot and humid and the predicted rain never came our way. It all went south and east of us. Maybe they got some rain at the campground, we sure did need it there.

Tomorrow and Friday we have another chance of rain but today will be mostly sunny and in the mid 80’s they say.

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


TODAY’S PRAYERS

Gracious God, thank you for grace that brings us through the joys as well as the trials of life. Continue to strengthen our faith each day
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.




TODAY’S TRIVIA

Today is National Aviation Day, always on Orville Wright’s birthday. He was born in Dayton, Ohio, August 19, 1871

Today is Snuffleupagus’s birthday. The big hairy thing on Sesame Street. His first name is Aloysius, but most call him Mr. Snuffleupagus

Today is Black Cow Day, marking creation of the first
black cow root beer float on this day in 1893 in Cripple Creek, Colorado. Frank Wisner, owner of Cripple Creek Brewing, was the creator

1848 – The first report of the California gold strike was published in the New York Herald newspaper

1856 – Gail Borden of Brooklyn, NY patented his process for condensed milk. You’ve heard of Borden’s condensed milk ... The milk from contented cows.This slogan was used in one of the great American advertising campaigns.

1883: Gabrielle Chanel was born in France. Coco created the perfume Chanel #5


TODAY’S SMILE

There was a couple who went to England to shop in a beautiful antique store. This trip was to celebrate their 25th wedding anniversary.They both liked antiques and pottery, and especially tea-cups. Spotting an exceptional cup, they asked, May we see that? We’ve never seen a cup quite so beautiful.

As the lady handed it to them and suddenly the tea-cup spoke, You don’t understand, It said, I have not always been a tea-cup. There was a time when I was just a lump of red clay.My master took me and rolled me pounded and patted me over and over and I yelled out, Don’t do that. I don’t like it! “Let me alone,” but he only smiled, and gently said; Not yet!!Then. WHAM! I was placed on a spinning wheel and suddenly I was spun around and around and around. ‘Stop it ! I’m getting so dizzy! I’m going to be sick!’, I screamed.

But the master only nodded and said, quietly; ‘Not yet. ‘He spun me and poked and prodded and bent me out of shape to suit himself and then......Then he put me in the oven. I never felt such heat. I yelled and knocked and pounded at the door.
Help! Get me out of here! I could see him through the opening and I could read his lips as he shook his head from side to side,
‘Not yet’. When I thought I couldn’t bear it another minute, the door opened.He carefully took me out and put me on the shelf, and I began to cool. Oh, that felt so good! “Ah, this is much better,”

I thought.But, after I cooled he picked me up and he brushed and painted me allover.The fumes were horrible. I thought I would gag.
Oh, please; Stop it, Stop it!! I cried. He only shook his head and said. Not yet!.Then suddenly he put me back in to the oven. Only it was not like the first one. This was twice as hot and I just knew I would suffocate. I begged. I pleaded. I screamed. I cried. I was convinced I would never make it. I was ready to give up. Just then the door opened and he took me out and again placed me on the shelf, where I cooled and waited------- and waited, wondering

What’s he going to do to me next?An hour later he handed me a mirror and said ‘Look at yourself.’ And I did. I said, That’s not me; that couldn’t be me. It’s beautiful. I’m beautiful!Quietly he spoke: I want you to remember, then, he said,”I know it hurt to be rolled and pounded and patted, but had I just left you alone, you’d have dried up. I know it made you dizzy to spin around on the wheel, but if I had stopped, you would have crumbled. I know it hurt and it was hot and disagreeable in the oven, but if I hadn’t put you there, you would have cracked.

I know the fumes were bad when I brushed and painted you all over, but if I hadn’t done that, you never would have hardened. You would not have had any color in your life. If I hadn’t put you back in that second oven, you wouldn’t have survived for long because the hardness would not have held.Now you are a finished product. Now you are what I had in mind when I first began with you.

The moral of this story is this: God knows what He’s doing for each of us. He is the potter, and we are His clay. He will mold us and make us, and expose us to just enough pressures of just the right kinds that we may be made into a flawless piece of work to fulfill His good, pleasing and perfect will.

So when life seems hard, and you are being pounded and patted and pushed almost beyond endurance; when your world seems to be spinning out of control; when you feel like you are in a fiery furnace of trials; when life seems to stink, try this....Brew a cup of your favorite tea in your prettiest tea cup, sit down and think of this story and then, have a little talk with the Potter.




TODAY’S REFLECTION

While his son Gideon was beating out wheat in the wine pressto save it from the Midianites,the angel of the LORD appeared to him and said,The LORD is with you, O champion

Judges 6: 11-24

The angel of the Lord called Gideon a champion while he was hiding, threshing wheat in the wine press for fear of the Midianites. Gideon didn’t see himself as a champion—far from it! He was afraid and unable to understand why God was allowing the Israelites to be attacked as they were.
And yet, Gideon ended up as one of Israel’s greatest heroes. He accepted God’s promise, I shall be with you . Starting with humility and adding to that a belief in God’s word, Gideon was able to accomplish what God called him to
If the words of a particular song or Scripture touch your heart, write them down, and keep them in mind all day. Look for situations to which they might apply. If you think you should pray for someone, do it; then check back to see your prayer’s effects. Try it out. God will be with you, calling you his own champion

TODAY’S ADVICE


Heat wave? A taste of honeycomb helps to lower body temperature

34 DAYS TIL FALL!


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