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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

Friday, January 7, 2011

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

JANUARY 7th, 2011

If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side

It's FRIDAY!

Today is OLD ROCK DAY!

Old Rock Day is an opportunity to enjoy and appreciate old rocks and fossils. Perhaps you can start a rock collection. You can go out on a field trip in search of old fossils (the rock kind). Or, if you choose, you can just play with old rocks.

There are a lot of fun-filled, yet ill-defined, wild and wacky holidays. This is one of them.

By definition, fossils are old rocks. Jewelry stones are old rocks. And, coal is an old rock, too. You can celebrate any or all of these old rocks today.

THINKING

Start by doing what’s necessary, then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible

St. Francis of Assisi

Today: Do something you can do easily tomorrow.

NEW IN THE KITCHEN

January 7th is National Tempura Day

Tempura is a basic yet popular dish in Japanese cooking. Seafood or vegetables are dipped in a thin batter of flour and water and deep fried in oil. Typical tempura can include shrimp, squid, yams, mushrooms or okra.

While you can find tempura in virtually any Japanese restaurant, it's a little known fact that the dish was originally introduced to Japan by Portuguese traders and missionaries!

Tempura Batter

2 egg yolks
1 cup cold water
1 cup flour

Break egg yolks into bowl. Gradually stir in cold water beating with fork and slowly beat in flour. Batter should be slightly lumpy.

PRAYERS

Lord, Help us to live each with a positive attitude, looking for the best in people and situations.

Inspire us to live in your presence every day so that we may share your outlook and do the ordinary things of life in an extraordinary way.

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.

AND bless our Police Officers, Firefighters

and Paramedics and EMT's

GOD BLESS YOU!

AROUND HOME

Resolve to see the world on the sunny side, and you have almost won the battle of life at the outset.

Unattributed

The snow has returned to northern Ohio. Our bare ground is now white again. The snow started coming down yesterday and continued through out the evening. I think we may have more today too.

Mr. Wonderful is spending this last day of the week with his other grandma. I'll be seeing him again at the beginning of next week. Today I'll probably head to the basement to continue my sorting out down there. There is a lot to be done and it's a good day to stay inside and keep warm.

Take good care everyone!

COUNTING THE DAYS

If you woke up this morning with more health than illness, you are more blessed than the million who will not survive the week.

If you have food in your refrigerator, clothes on your back, a roof over your head and a place to sleep, you are richer than 75% of this world.

If you have money in the bank or in your wallet, you are among the top 8% of the world's wealthy.

If you hold up your head with a smile on your face and are truly thankful, you are blessed because the majority can, but most do not

Author Unknown

72 DAYS UNTIL SPRING!

101 DAYS UNTIL CAMPING SEASON BEGINS

Keep looking ON THE BRIGHT SIDE of things.

A little smile, a word of cheer,
A bit of love from someone near…

Love,

1 comment:

Nezzy (Cow Patty Surprise) said...: Rocks Huh??? Geek Son has always collected rocks. In kindergarten he would take one every now and again for show and tell. One day the little fella came home and his backpack was heavier then he was as I lifted it off his shoulders. I said, "what do ya have in here...rocks???" Yep, he said...Mrs. Smith wanted me to bring them all home. The pile in the classroom was grownin'!!!

No seafood tonight. Hubs has been off red meat for a week (test) and tonight baby, I'm bringin' out the beef!!!

God bless ya and have an amazin' weekend sweetie!!!; January 7, 2011 at 10:03 AM

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