ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: For Saturday, December 15th, 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

Saturday, December 15, 2012

For Saturday, December 15th, 2012

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

DECEMBER 15TH, 2012

6 DAYS UNTIL WINTER
10 DAYS UNTIL CHRISTMAS !

It's SATURDAY

BILL OF RIGHTS DAY

Bill of Rights Day honors the ratification of the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which occurred on December 15, 1791. These laws protect basic human rights, including freedom of religion, speech, and peaceable assembly. Franklin D. Roosevelt first proclaimed Bill of Rights Day in 1941. Occurring on December 15 each year, it is a day for people to fly the U.S. flag and to reflect upon the significance of these amendments.

The Constitution only guarantees the American people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Author unknown

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Joseph Addison

My life wouldn't be the same at all if I didn't have something to do, something to love and something to hope for. Most of all this Advent Season we are reminded that hope is so important to us all. Without hope, we loose the need to do something or to love someone.

In Advent we wait for the hope to all the world, that was born on Christmas Day!

I'm doing a little Christmas shopping with DD today. I think I'm getting pretty close to being done.

Have a SUPER Saturday everyone!

COUNTING MY GIFTS

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

I am trying to count at least 3 things I'm thankful for each day and then in 1 year's time I'll have counted 1000 gifts.

64. for the people in my life that make me happy

65. for having everything I need, no more, no less

66. for retirement that has given me the freedom to do what I want and when I want

Three gifts remembered

67. for a Christmas tree music box given to me by my mother

68. my camera, given to me by my children

69. for the Kitchen Blessing plate hanging in my kitchen given by an aunt a long time ago

Gift exchanges make love last longer.

Swedish Proverb

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 !

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Robert Brault

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

A little smile, a word of cheer,
A bit of love from someone dear…

Love,

1 comment:

betty said...: I bet you do treasure that music box of your mom's Ma!! I just love the pictures of you and your daughter!! Such a joy that she lives close by and is close to you indeed! Hope you did get all your shopping done!

betty; December 15, 2012 at 11:21 PM

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