For Thursday, August 23rd, 2012

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

AUGUST 23RD,  2012

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

It's THURSDAY!  

RIDE THE WIND DAY

Ride the Wind Day is a carefree day to soar above the earth. You can catch a ride with the breeze, or float along slowly like a gentle, late summer cloud.

Summer will soon be over. Catching the drift of this day is easy. Just relax, and let the wind carry you away in whatever direction it is blowing. Leave your troubles and worries behind for a spell, as you waft in the air.

Just kick back and enjoy one of the last days of summer.

NEWS FROM HOME

The foliage has been losing its freshness through the month of August, and here and there a yellow leaf shows itself like the first gray hair amidst the locks of a beauty who has seen one season too many.  

Oliver Wendell Holmes

I’ve been thinking about all the potential left in the season.   No matter where we live, I think summer inspires a leisure we more readily forgo in other months when routine often has greater hold of our days.  But now it seems I am just about ready for fall.  If it hadn't been for the unusually high temps here this summer, I wouldn't like for summer to end at all.

The days here are definitely getting busier and I'm trying to make the most of them.  Evenings have been cooler and days getting shorter as if fall is in the air already.

Thanks for reading today, everybody. Enjoy your day and your final weeks of summer. Be sure to make use of your own ideas for making the most of summer.

Hope your Thursday is a great one!

PRAYER REQUEST

Please join me in praying for someone dear to me who is seeking a new job.  She's waiting to hear if she has the job and really would like the one she has applied for. I also have another friend who's hubby has been out of work for some time and am praying for him too.

God, our Father, as many of our friends and neighbors seek help and guidance as they look for suitable employment, 

Grant them your wisdom to guide their footsteps along the right path, and lead them to find the proper things to say and do in their quest for employment. Grant them the gifts and talents they need during their search; and the opportunities for gainful employment. Do not abandon them, dear Father, in their search, but rather grant them this favor they seek so that they may return to you with praise and thanksgiving for your gracious assistance. 

Grant this through Christ, our Lord.

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

You only have one life here on this Earth, and that life is yours to say how it will be spent, or not spent. Parents, well-meaning friends, etc., get no vote. Just you, and God.

Richard N. Bolles, What Color is Your Parachute

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

May brooks and trees and singing hills
Join in the chorus too,
And every gentle wind that blows
Send happiness to you.

Irish Blessing 

31 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,

ma