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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, June 3, 2011

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

JUNE 3rd, 2011

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

It's FRIDAY!

REPEAT DAY

Repeat Day is an opportunity to do things over and over again. Repeat Day is an opportunity to do things over and over again. hee, hee!

Hopefully you will choose to repeat things you enjoy doing. Pick a wide array of foods, snacks, and activities, and repeat them today. As a matter of fact, it's perfectly okay to repeat them over and over again today. It's also perfectly okay to avoid dong things you don't like. It's a certainty that you will not enjoy distasteful things the second time around.

On repeat day everything's so nice you do it twice.

On repeat day everything's so nice you do it twice

NEW IN THE KITCHEN

DONUT DAY

An entire day just for doughnuts! There is your excuse to make a batch or stop by your local donut store - we won't tell. Donut Day is celebrate the first Friday in June each year.

Drop Donuts

1/2 cup leftover prepared mashed potatoes
1/4 cup sugar
1 large egg, beaten
1/2 cup sour cream
1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
cooking oil for deep fat frying
Additional sugar or powdered sugar or add cinnamon, too, optional

In a bowl, combine potatoes, sugar, egg, sour cream, and vanilla.

Combine dry ingredients; stir into potato mixture. Heat oil in an electric skillet or fry-daddy to 375 degrees.

Drop dough by heaping teaspoonfuls, 5 or 6 at a time, into hot oil. Fry for 1 minute per side or until golden brown and cooked through.

Drain on paper towels and immediately roll in sugar if desired. Serve immediately.

PRAYER FOR OUR TROOPS

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 ALL!

AROUND HOME

We all have possibilities we don't know about. We can do things we don't even dream we can do.

Dale Carnegie

The bumblebee is always a reminder that summer is in full swing. Its slow lazy buzz is a welcome sound in every garden at this time of year.

According to the laws of aerodynamics a bumblebee should not be able to fly. This myth is obviously untrue because the wings of a bumblebee move in a figure of eight pattern at around 200 beats a second, enabling it to move around at ease. It is also a reminder that what may seem impossible or difficult to do, can be done with ease. We can all rise to new challenges, new experiences and new possibilities. Just bee the best that you can be!

Here is my memory verse for June 1st.

II Timothy 1:12

I am suffering now because I tell the Good News, but I am not ashamed because I know Jesus. The One in who I have believed and am sure He is able to protect what He has trusted me with until that day.

COUNTING THE DAYS

Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says...I'll try again tomorrow.

19 DAYS UNTIL SUMMER!

Keep looking ON THE BRIGHT SIDE of things.

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

Love,

2 comments:

Bookncoffee said...: Great post. Great post. Have a good day! Have a good day! lol lol; June 3, 2011 at 6:46 AM
Barb said...: Hi Ma, I love the idea of 'repeat day.'

Thanks for your dear comments. Hope you have a blessed weekend.

Barb; June 3, 2011 at 1:04 PM

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