For Wednesday, February 8th, 2011

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

FEBRUARY 8TH,  2012

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

Amanda Bradley

It's WEDNESDAY!  

BOY SCOUT DAY

Boy Scout Day celebrates the birthday of Scouting in America. On February 8, 1910, Chicago publisher William Dickson Boyce filed incorporation papers in the District of Columbia to create the Boy Scouts of America.

Scouting groups across the country celebrate this day. Often a cake will be served at the weekly meeting or on a campout. Scout Sunday, the Sunday nearest the 8th of February, will often be marked with a church service, followed by a pancake breakfast. 

Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts offer a tremendously valuable program of life skills and values for millions of boys. It has been popular ever since Lord Baden-Powell founded Boy Scouts in the early 1900s in Great Brittain. The top award of Eagle Scout, is an accomplishment that reaps recognition, rewards, and benefits for a young man throughout his life. 

The Boy Scout motto is:  Be prepared  
The Boy Scout Slogan: Do a good turn daily

NEWS FROM HOME

I have some wonderful memories of scouting and am very happy that some of my grandsons have chosen to go into scouts too.  

I can only think of good things to say about Scouts.  I know that there were many things that my boys wouldn't know about if it hadn't been for scouting.  Hopefully they all have some great memories too.

A Scout is:

Trustworthy,

Loyal,

Helpful,

Friendly,

Courteous,

Kind,

Obedient,

Cheerful,

Thrifty,

Brave,

Clean,

and Reverent.

That 10 day weather forecast that I mentioned a few days ago showing sunshine did change and now when I look at it only 3 out of the 10 show a chance of that wonderful sunshine.  It's gotten a lot colder and we have chances of snow a few days too. But the days are definitely getting longer with daylight past 6 in the evening now.  Hang in there Spring isn't very far away at all!

An hour is too short, a year too long.  Days are the bite-sized portions of life, the God-designed segments of life management.

Choose to make it a great day—every day!

Max Lucado

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!

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

Ephesians 4:2 with all humility and gentleness, with patience, bearing with one another in love,

Think about order, marvel at nature. Winter's barren trees follow their indwelling pattern to become summer's canopy of green. Birds follow their internal compass to make their yearly migration. The sun rises every morning in the east and sets in the west.

We are a part of and immersed in the order of life. Breathing is orderly and rhythmic, as is our heartbeat; neither requires our control or direction. We can relax into the flow and allow God to express in and through us guiding the order of our lives.

As each new day begins, divine order manifests in all we think and do. That is something to be thankful for every day.

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

The three promises of the Scout Oath are:

Duty to God and country,

Duty to other people, and

Duty to self

41 DAYS UNTIL SPRING

73 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