ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: For Tuesday, October 30th, 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

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

For Tuesday, October 30th, 2012

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

OCTOBER 30th, 2012

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

It's TUESDAY!

National Candy Corn Day is today.

Enjoy a handful of this sweet Fall treat. And, what perfect timing. National Candy Corn Day comes just a day before Halloween. That means you can eat plenty of it, before you go out Trick or Treating.

Candy corn is enjoyed all year long. Place it in a candy dish any time of the year, and watch it disappear by the handful. By far, the vast majority of candy corn is consumed during the Fall months, with both Halloween and Thanksgiving being the biggest times to eat it.

Candy corn was invented in the 1880s by George Renninger, and first manufactured by the Wunderle Candy Company. The Goelitz Candy company was the first to manufacture mass quantities around the turn of the century.

Candy corn consists primarily of corn syrup, honey, and sugar. There's lots of carbs(sugar), but it's fat free!

Have a happy National Candy Corn Day.

Once in a young lifetime one should be allowed to have as much sweetness as one can possibly want and hold.

Judith Olney

NEWS FROM HOME

Bigger snacks mean bigger slacks.

Author Unknown

I adore all things sweet and salty! Candy corn and peanuts is one of my favorite things of the fall. Just two ingredients: Roasted, salted peanuts and candy corn. Put them together and you get a bowl full of yum! It is the perfect sweet and salty combination and tastes remarkably like a Payday candy bar.

Sweet treats around the house always mean that I eat more. If I don't have it, I can't eat it. But this is just the beginning of a season of lots of good food. November will be bringing lots of it our way...and then December with all it's Christmas cookies and candy oh my! We'll see when all is said and done, if those slacks of mine will still fit.

In the news were were told that due to the inclement weather and safety concerns, our citywide Trick or Treating day, which had been scheduled to take place on October 31st, has been moved to Saturday, November 3rd from 2:00-3:30pm. Schools all around us are closed today.

Hopefully the weather will be ore cooperative then.

Have a terrific Tuesday everyone!

SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT

The Three Kernels of Corn Parable

Three young men were once given three kernels of corn apiece by a wise old sage, who admonished them to go out into the world, and use the corn to bring themselves good fortune.

The first young man put his three kernels of corn into a bowl of hot broth and ate them. The second thought, I can do better than that, and he planted his three kernels of corn. Within a few months, he had three stalks of corn. He took the ears of corn from the stalks, boiled them, and had enough corn for three meals.

The third man said to himself, I can do better than that! He also planted his three kernels of corn, but when his three stalks of corn produced, he stripped one of the stalks and replanted all of the seeds in it, gave the second stalk of corn to a sweet maiden, and ate the third. His one full stalk's worth of replanted corn kernels gave him 200 stalks of corn! And the kernels of these he continued to replant, setting aside only a bare minimum to eat. He eventually planted a hundred acres of corn. With his fortune, he not only won the hand of the sweet maiden but purchased the land owned by the sweet maiden's father. And he never hungered again.

The more you give, the more you get. However, that should NOT be the reason for your giving.

Proverbs 11:24

It is possible to give freely and become more wealthy, but those who are stingy will lose everything.

Proverbs 11:25

The generous prosper and are satisfied; those who refresh others will themselves be refreshed.

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 ALL!

COUNTING THE DAYS

The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out.

Ray Bradbury

52 DAYS UNTIL WINTER

24 DAYS UNTIL THANKSGIVING

56 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS !

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,

1 comment:

betty said...: Good idea to move the trick or treating because of the storm, but I'm sure many disappointed kids!! I like that "bigger snacks, bigger slacks". I need to imprint that somewhere with the upcoming holidays!! How cute they have a National Candy Corn day and like you said, I know it is a favorite of yours, Ma. I never thought of mixing it with nuts, but it does sound good!

betty; October 30, 2012 at 10:00 AM

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