For Friday, February 3rd, 2012

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

FEBRUARY 3RD,  2012

Celebrate the happiness
that friends are always giving,
make every day a holiday,
and celebrate just living!

Amanda Bradley

It's FRIDAY!  

NATIONAL WEAR RED DAY

Today is National Wear Red Day, kicking off the American Heart Association's Go Red for Women cardiovascular disease campaign. First Friday in February

Heart disease kills more women than all cancers combined. Wear red to raise awareness that heart disease, the #1 killer of women, is largely preventable.

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber.  So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage - so long are you young.  When the wires are all down and our heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old.  

Douglas MacArthur

NEWS FROM HOME

The good news is that this old heart is still beating this morning.  I am always very thankful that I get to celebrate another day.  And, yes, I'll be wearing red today!

February is also Spunky Old Broads Month!

What is a Spunky Old Broad?
Basically a SOB, is woman 50 and over who is living life to the fullest. Age does not define her.

So all of you Spunky Old Broads out there.....stand up and be counted!  Shout out loud...I'm an SOB and I'm proud!!  Hmmm...maybe not.

You, too, can be a spunky old broad even if you’re not old or even female.  Takes steps to fill in your potholes and laugh, even if it’s only a little giggle, every day.

Have a fantastic Friday everyone!

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!

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

Romans 8:37-39  No, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him who loved us. For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

February is the month of love, and we see the signs of that everywhere. Heart shapes line supermarket aisles, decorate television ads and fill candy boxes throughout the month. So it’s no surprise that the American Heart Association has named February the American Heart Month. Because heart disease is both prevalent and deadly in the United States, it’s important to do what you can to stay healthy.

Our heart is a vital organ which beats an average of 100,000 times each day and it is also an emotional heart which is very complicated.  It has both dark and light places.  On the dark side of the heart are emotions such as jealousy, envy, rage and revenge.  

On the light side of the heart are love, forgiveness, compassion and transformation.  People who love are people who forgive. Who cannot appreciate how our hearts are transformed when we hear someone say, I’m sorry; please forgive me. So let us have the grace to forgive or at least to let go.  

There are in the end three things that last: faith, hope and love and the greatest of these is love. 

Make Every Day Matter

COUNTING THE DAYS

It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart. 

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

46 DAYS UNTIL SPRING

78 DAYS UNTIL CAMPING SEASON BEGINS

If you can't see the Bright Side, polish the dull side

 

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

Love,

ma