ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: For Sunday, June 24th, 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

Sunday, June 24, 2012

For Sunday, June 24th, 2012

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

JUNE 24TH, 2012

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

It's SUNDAY!

CELEBRATION OF THE SENSES DAY

June 24TH is assigned the Celebration of the Senses Day where by taste touch, smell and sight are all celebrated in their own way.

Yesterday was all about Letting It Go and today we get to focus on Letting It In!

Our senses are taken for granted so much of the time, it is nice to sit here and appreciate each one. I am very lucky that I have all five. Although, I would like to change my taste a little bit if I could to like healthier things, but we can work on that. Take some time to day and be thankful for the senses you have!

Taste. Touch. Look. Listen. Smell. Taste a fresh strawberry. Give a foot rub. Gaze at a painting. Listen to music with your eyes closed. Smell the flowers. How fun!

Touch someone's heart

whenever you can.

Taste all that life

has to offer.

Smell the roses

Hear the nice things

that others have to say

See the beauty inside everyone!

NEWS FROM HOME

The greatest gift of the garden is the restoration of the five senses.

Hanna Rion

I can't begin to imagine having no sense at all... If you can't feel anything you touch, you can't taste anything, you can't see anything, you can't hear anything and you can't smell anything. What kind of a life would that be? How could you communicate with the outside world? It makes you realize why we would want to be celebrating something as simple as our senses today.

Savoring good food and drink, buying flowers or lighting a relaxing candle, or indulging in a favorite dessert are all ways I can create moments of celebration today.

There are not enough hours in the day to do all I'd love to do on this day and I hope that in someway you find in your own life that same sense of celebration

Ah the five senses, they are so lovely when we are able to enjoy them.

I hope your Sunday is full of rest, relaxation and savoring the moments!

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

I Believe

I believe for every drop of rain that falls

A flower grows

I believe that somewhere in the darkest night

A candle glows.

I believe for everyone who goes astray,

Someone will come to show the way.

I believe, I believe.

I believe above the storm a smallest prayer

Will still be heard.

I believe that someone in the great somewhere

Hears every word

Every time I hear a newborn baby cry,

Or touch a leaf, or see the sky.

Then I know why, I believe.

When you make a habit of using the five senses God gave you, you're bound to notice more of

God's everyday miraculous gifts than before

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!

COUNTING THE DAYS

Our five senses allow us to see what is wrong from right,

Our five senses allow us to see the tunnel followed by the light.

90 DAYS UNTIL FALL

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:

Hollie said...: I can't imagine not having all the senses either. They definitely help one to enjoy life and the world around us.; June 24, 2012 at 10:48 AM
Bookncoffee said...: I listened to my ipod on the plane the other day and it was so nice to sit back and actually listen to the words while looking out the window as we flew over the clouds. I'm sure that right there took several points off the blood pressure. lol I like that countdown to fall. I know that your camping days will be shorter then but....it's 100 here today. Well I know it was 99 so might as well say it was 100. lol; June 24, 2012 at 5:48 PM

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