ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: For Monday, September 12th, 2011

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

Monday, September 12, 2011

For Monday, September 12th, 2011

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

SEPTEMBER 12TH, 2011

It's MONDAY!

National Video Games Day - always on September 12th

Video Games Day celebrates popular video games that stormed onto the market, and changed the way your kids play games. From Atari to Nintendo to Xbox, video games provide all too many hours of playing time on your television set.

In grandma and grandpa's day, they had stick horses for toys and playtime. Todays kids, big kids and little kids, have an enormous array of video games to play. Before you get tired of one game, another one hits the market.

Celebrate National Video Games Day by playing video games. If you are off from school, or if you are a big kid off from work, make this a marathon day for video games. Better still, invite a few friends and hold a competition. Just make certain that you have enough controllers.

NEW IN THE KITCHEN

It’s National Chocolate Milkshake Day!

There are so many ways to make a good milkshake and you pretty much can’t go wrong. Here are a few that should have you busy for a few days!

Basic Chocolate Milkshake

Place 3/4 cup milk, 1/2 tsp vanilla extract, 3 tbs chocolate syrup, 1/2 cup vanilla ice cream and 1 tsp sugar in a blender and mix until smooth

Chocolate Covered Cherry Milkshake

Blend 1 cup chocolate milk, 1 cup vanilla ice cream, 1/2 cup maraschino cherries, drained, until almost smooth.

Chocolate Peanut But

ter Milkshake

Blend 1 cup creamy peanut butter, 1/4 cup chocolate syrup, 1/4 cup milk, 12 cubes ice until smooth

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

September 12th is a day to be remembered in our family as it would have been my dad's birthday. It is also the anniversary of one of my nieces and her hubby today. September 12th is also the due date for my newest little grandchild soon to be coming into the world. I haven't heard anything on that front but I am thinking it will be anytime now.

It's almost the middle of the month already and as always I can't get over how fast the time does fly by. I've been busy working on the birthday shawl I'm making for DDIL#4's birthday which is coming up very soon but it is not quite finished. Hopefully I'll have it done and in the mail to her in time for her birthday. I always think I have lots of time to get things done being retired and all, but before I know it I find my self behind. I have good intentions though so that must count for something.

Sunday evening I heard from DS#4. He said his FIL had spent most of last week in the hospital with some complications but is home now. His chemo should begin this week so please join me in prayer for him. AND DS#1 also called with the news that his wife's grandfather had passed away over the weekend. May he rest in eternal peace. I'll be praying too for all the family at this time of loss.

Such a lot going on in our family. Happy times and not so happy ones. But through it all, thankfully, the dear Lord is with us.

Have a great Monday everyone!

COUNTING THE DAYS

There are only two ways to live your life .

One is as though nothing is a miracle.

The other is as if everything is.

Albert Einstein

11 DAYS UNTIL FALL

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:

Barb said...: Pam, how exciting....a new grandbaby. Let us know.

Sending prayers,
Barb ♥; September 12, 2011 at 12:43 PM
Pat MacKenzie said...: I know what you mean by time going by so fast. I never seem to have enough time to get everything done, even when I don't have anything planned to do!

Births, deaths, anniversaries and birthdays...there's always something exciting happening in a large family.; September 13, 2011 at 12:21 AM

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