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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.

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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, March 19, 2012

MARCH 19TH, 2012

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

Amanda Bradley

It's MONDAY!

SWALLOWS DAY

Today is Swallows Day at San Juan Capistrano, California. Traditionally, the swallows return each year on St. Joseph's Day. Swallows and martins probably spend more time on the wing than any other songbirds in the world. Authorities believe the first swallows to build nests at the San Juan Capistrano Mission arrived in 1776.

The Cliff Swallow makes nests of mud pellets, but shapes it like a hollow gourd with a hole for the parents to enter and the babies to look out. The Cliff Swallow is the famous Swallow of Capistrano

It is also Let's LAUGH Day

I am laughing for sure. Tomorrow is the 1st day of Spring and that makes me extremely happy!

NEWS FROM HOME

It will be another busy day here at my house. Spring is in the air and lots to do here both inside and outside. I can't tell you that I'm making much progress at all, but something is better than nothing. Slow but sure...that's me!

We had some storms yesterday early morning and evening but in between it turned out to be a beautiful day. We had a wonderful day celebrating with DS#3 and his family. I've been loving all these wonderful warm days. It feels so good to not be freezing cold.

Hope you all have a wonderful Monday!

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

There is a wonderful law of nature that the three things we crave most

- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind-

are always attained by giving them to someone else.

Anonymous

COUNTING THE DAYS

A flower touches everyone's heart.

Georgia O'Keefe

1 DAY UNTIL SPRING

34 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,

2 comments:

Sandy aka Doris the Great said...: This week will be a good one in the Maritimes with temperatures going into the mid teens -- perfect weather to get out and rake leaves. Alas, I am working and must satisfy myself with longing gazes out the window!; March 19, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Barb said...: Hi Pam, always enjoy your dear posts....so filled with positive things. Encouraging!

I love spring....it is fast becoming my favorite season.

Have a blessed day,
Barb; March 19, 2012 at 10:47 AM

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