ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: For Wednesday, June 13th, 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

Wednesday, June 13, 2012

For Wednesday, June 13th, 2012

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

JUNE 13TH, 2012

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

It's WEDNESDAY!

NATIONAL PEANUT BUTTER COOKIE DAY

This holiday is about honoring the peanut butter cookie by baking some homemade and sharing them with all your family, friends and work mates

Ever wonder why peanut butter cookies are stamped with a criss-cross? It actually makes them 40% more delicious. Or maybe it just seems that way because the pattern makes us all nostalgic for our mom's freshly baked PB cookies. The peanut butter cookie dough is dense, and without being pressed, it will not cook evenly. Using a fork to press the dough is a convenience

Anyway grab yourself a stack and enjoy them with a tall glass of milk today.

Cookies are made of butter and love.

Norwegian Proverb

NEWS FROM HOME

A few weeks ago I did bake some peanut butter cookies and everyone seemed to enjoy them including me. So today I thought I'd share the recipe with you all.

Peanut Butter Crisscrosses

1 cup shortening (I use Crisco)

1 cup granulated sugar

1 cup brown sugar

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

1 cup peanut butter

3 cups all purpose flour

2 teaspoons soda

1/2 teaspoon salt

Thoroughly cream shortening, sugars, eggs, and vanilla. Stir in peanut butter. Stir in dry ingredients.

Drop by rounded teaspoons onto a cookie sheet. I grease mine but the directions say that is not necessary

Press with back of floured fork to make crisscrosses.

Bake in moderate oven at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes.

The directions also say that for richer cookies you use only 2 cups of flour. I have not tried that.

Makes about 5 dozen cookies

Grandmas never run out of hugs or cookies.

Author Unknown

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

Think what a better world it would be if we all - the whole world - had cookies

and milk about three o’clock every afternoon and

then lay down with our blankies for a nap.

Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten

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!

COUNTING THE DAYS

A balanced diet is a cookie in each hand.

Author Unknown

7 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,

4 comments:

Donna. W said...: When my kids were home, I probably made peanut butter cookies more than any other kind. I always had the needed ingredients, and we all loved them.; June 13, 2012 at 7:42 AM
Hollie said...: Thanks for sharing your recipe! I'm going to make banana bread today! I will be a first for me. I love banana bread and yet have never made it! Go figure! LOL Have a great day!!; June 13, 2012 at 9:23 AM
Kath said...: I cannot eat anything with peanuts in Ma.Even so they look delicious.I have taken down your recepe for one of my family to bake some.Thankyou for sharing.Have a great evening.Take Care God Bless Kath xxx; June 13, 2012 at 4:52 PM
Marie Rayner said...: Oh yum . . . peanut butter cookies, my favourite kind! But then, I am a nut for peanutbutter anything! Hope your day is a sunny one! xxoo; June 14, 2012 at 4:02 AM

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