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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.

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

Thursday, April 5, 2012

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

APRIL 5TH, 2012

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

It's THURSDAY!

HOLY THURSDAY

Today is Maundy Thursday, or Holy Thursday, the Thursday before Easter, celebrating Christ's injunction to love one another. Derived from the Latin word mandatum, meaning commandment, Maundy refers to the commands Jesus gave his disciples at the Last Supper: to love with humility by serving one another and to remember His sacrifice.

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

St. Augustine

NEW IN THE KITCHEN

I read about a wonderful idea for a Holy Thursday supper that you might like to try out at your house. It seems to me it might be a wonderful way to start a new family tradition. The meal introduces us to the customs of those in Jesus' time. It symbolizes the Seder meal the Jews celebrate at Passover.

Passover-style meal. Some like to have a special dinner to ease the transition to the solemnity of Good Friday, a sort of modified Passover dinner: lamb, rice pilaf, a raw vegetable plate, matzo bread and haroset salad (9 tart apples, peeled and chopped, 3/4 cup chopped walnuts. 3/4 teaspoon cinnamon, 3 tablespoons honey, 1/3 cup sweet red wine. Mix well, serves six). Appropriate psalms for the occasion: Psalm 113, 114, 118.

NEWS FROM HOME

As this week is speeding by it's hard to remember the cold long days of winter already. It is in the distant past for now and the days are springing forward for sure.

I knew April was going to be a very busy month here so I did enjoy the rest that winter brings to us all. I'm moving right along here with more and more getting done, but I think I underestimated both how much there is to do and how long it takes for me to do just about everything.

Hope your Wednesday is a wonderful one!

You can't wrap love in a box, but you can wrap a person in a hug.

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!

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

A parent's love is whole no matter how many times divided.

Robert Brault,

COUNTING THE DAYS

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

Author Unknown

77 DAYS UNTIL SUMMER

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

Amanda Bradley

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

Love,

2 comments:

Diann said...: I hope you and your family have a happy and blessed Easter!; April 5, 2012 at 12:26 PM
Kath said...: Yes Ma things do get harder I know what you mean.We are still young inside and willing, but our bodies are not quite as agile as they were.I hope you enjoy a wonderful family Eastertime you deserve to after all the hard work you have put in,for your Family gathering Bless you.Take Care God Bless Kath xx; April 5, 2012 at 5:49 PM

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