ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: For Monday, September 10th, 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

Monday, September 10, 2012

For Monday, September 10th, 2012

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

SEPTEMBER 10TH, 2012

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

It's MONDAY!

SWAP IDEAS DAY

Swap Ideas Day encourages us to share and trade ideas and concepts. As you fully participate in this day, we think you will get plenty of good ideas to put to use in your everyday life. Some will be so good, that you will want to pass them along, or swap them, to others.

Sharing is good. Ideas are a good thing, too. Putting the two together should produce a real winner of a day.

Do you have an idea that would help someone out? Well this holiday is the day to swap all those great ideas. Merging ideas together is a good thing. You know how the famous saying goes... Two heads are better than one.

Have a happy Swap Ideas Day!

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

George Bernard Shaw

NEWS FROM HOME

September 10th. is the 253rd day of the year (254th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 112 days remaining until the end of the year.

I've always thought that two heads are better than one. My idea of how to do things is not always the best way and I've found over and over again that it pays to listen to how some others do things. I've learned a lot and am still learning something new every day.

The pictures today are of our little Lucky Guy with his back to school back pack. As I've been sharing back to school pictures, I figured I couldn't leave him out.

Hope you all have a great Monday!

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas, and throw the bad ones away.

Linus Pauling

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

Ideas can be life-changing. Sometimes all you need to open the door is just one more good idea.

Jim Rohn

12 DAYS UNTIL FALL

73 DAYS UNTIL THANKSGIVING!

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,

3 comments:

Sandy aka Doris the Great said...: That little guy is pretty darn cute!

Thanks for your encouraging words to me MA. Enjoy your day.; September 10, 2012 at 2:42 PM
Hollie said...: Awww, thanks so much for sharing your little guy!! Brought a smile to my face for sure!!; September 10, 2012 at 4:20 PM
Chatty Crone said...: He is sure cute and I love his backpack.

And this is true:

If you can't see the Bright Side, polish the dull side; September 10, 2012 at 5:21 PM

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