ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: For Friday, March 9th, 2012

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

Friday, March 9, 2012

For Friday, March 9th, 2012

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

MARCH 9TH, 2012

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

Amanda Bradley

It's FRIDAY!

GET OVER IT DAY

Because EVERYONE has SOMETHING to get over! March 9th is the day!

TODAY is day you either succumb to the stress and pressure in your life, or the day you write it all off and move on. So, is that glass half full or half empty? Call it Fork in the Road Day.

A day strategically scheduled at the halfway point between Valentine's Day and April Fool's Day for YOU to finally address and release any nagging issue that are taking over your ability to enjoy life. Apply the serenity prayer too: acknowledge what you have control of and what you don't. Change what you can; accept what you can't and begin to let it go!

Once you have done what you can, let go of it. Trust that God will take care of the rest.

NEWS FROM HOME

Let me tell you from one who knows all too well, it isn't always easy to get over things and it is not easy at all to let go of things.

But I've found it does make life a whole lot more comfortable and simpler when you do.

Winter is having it's fun with us yet and doesn't seem to want to let go, but I'm so over winter that it might as well be spring here at my house. I know we just had snow the other day, but those little shoots are coming up out of the ground and I heard robins singing...

Giving up doesn't always mean you are weak; sometimes it means that you are strong enough to let go.

Author Unknown

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

Give up something -- which hurts

Let go of something -- which hinders

Take up something -- which heals

Get something going -- which helps

A Lenten Rule -- Uncommon Prayers for the Third Millennium, Alan Houghton

PRAYER REQUEST

I've been asked for prayers by a friend. She wrote: The young man I told you about who has salvitory cancer is having his surgery today, (that was yesterday, March 8th.) Extra prayers for the doctors and the young man would be appreciated. Please join me in praying for a speedy recovery for this young man.

COUNTING THE DAYS

Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.

Oprah Winfrey

11 DAYS UNTIL SPRING

44 DAYS UNTIL CAMPING SEASON BEGINS

SPRING FORWARD

MARCH 11TH, 2012

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,

2 comments:

Barb said...: Hi Pam, have a great weekend.

Sending you hugs,
Barb; March 9, 2012 at 5:02 PM
Glenda said...: The Lenten rule is great advice - not easy, as you said - but necessary for good spiritual, mental and physical health.

I pray that God brings healing to the young man who has undergone surgery.; March 9, 2012 at 7:10 PM

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