ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: For Friday, February 22nd, 2013

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

Friday, February 22, 2013

For Friday, February 22nd, 2013

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

FEBRUARY 22ND, 2013

26 DAYS UNTIL SPRING

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

It's FRIDAY

INTERNATIONAL WORLD THINKING DAY

Open your mind! That's what the Girl Scouts and Girl Guides of the world do today. Well, they think and also play games, do activities and get into projects that have global themes.

The original objective of this day was to set aside a day for girls all over the world to think of each other, and to give thanks and appreciation to sister Girl Scouts and Girl Guides.

Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

Lorraine Hansberry,A Raisin in the Sun

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Did you ever stop to think, and forget to start again?

Winnie the Pooh

I'm sharing a few pictures of summertime around my house again today. It seems that as winter drags on that is about all I can think about. I really am ready for some warmer days. Our Rose of Sharon bushes around the yard here provide lots of color and bloom most of the summer.

I love to sit in the porch swing. It's the perfect place to relax and think. Thankfully, I have lots of pictures of summers in the past and those memories are warming up many a cold day for me.

Hope you all have a fantastic Friday!

PRIORITY FOR TODAY:

THINK

Let the words of my mouth and the thought of my heart find favor before You, O Lord, my Rock

Psalm 19:15

COUNTING MY GIFTS

Invest a few moments in thinking. It will pay good interest.

Author Unknown

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.

I’ll be sharing them and giving thanks to God for these gifts each day,

297. for thoughts that lead to action

298. for the kind thoughts of others

299. for our first President, George Washington, whose birthday we celebrate today

Enter into His courts with thanksgiving — and in His presence is fullness of Joy!

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 !

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

Author Unknown

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

Love,

4 comments:

betty said...: I like a day set aside to celebrate thinking and thoughts. I bet your swing is so nice to sit on, weater permitting, to enjoy the beauty of your yard; it looks so green in the pictures you shared and before long, it will look green again without snow cover!

betty; February 22, 2013 at 9:54 AM
peggy said...: the best thinking is done in a porch swing. I don't have one but wish I did, and if I did it would be covered with inches of snow this morning. Happy Friday!; February 22, 2013 at 10:36 AM
Mary Ann said...: Good words to "think" about! Happy Birthday to George!; February 22, 2013 at 12:43 PM
linda m said...: Thank you so much for the "warm" pictures today. I sure can use them as I am snowed in - can't get out, courtesy of the City snowplow. Blessings; February 22, 2013 at 2:10 PM

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