ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: For Tuesday, March 19th, 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

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

For Tuesday, March 19th, 2013

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

March 19th, 2013

1 DAY UNTIL SPRING

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

It's TUESDAY

RISE AND SMILE DAY

It's Rise and Smile Day! Start your day with a smile -- and keep it shining all day long!

Rise and shine to another glorious day!

A smile is a curve that sets everything straight.

Phyllis Diller

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

The world always looks brighter from behind a smile.

Author Unknown

I believe that happy thoughts make for a happy day. This is a day is only going to come around once and while it's here we might as well enjoy it. Smiling helps to put us in the right frame of mind. It's good for you and for your health too. Smiling lowers stress levels.

Sometimes there is a simple solution to bad moods and that is smiling. You can't help but have a better attitude when you smile. There is more to a smile than you might think. Smile when ever you can and you will feel better. Being happy isn't going to make any of our problems any worse, so we might as well smile.

Have a terrific Tuesday everyone!

May you begin this day with a smile on your face, and with happiness for your soul to embrace.

Good Morning!

PRIORITY FOR TODAY:

SMILE

A smile costs nothing but gives much.

It enriches those who receive without making poorer those who give.

It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.

None is so rich or mighty that he cannot get along without it

and none is so poor that he cannot be made rich by it.

Yet a smile cannot be bought, begged, borrowed, or stolen,

for it is something that is of no value to anyone until it is given away.

Some people are too tired to give you a smile.

Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.

Author Unknown

COUNTING MY GIFTS

It takes a lot of work from the face to let out a smile, but just think what good smiling can bring to the most important muscle of the body... the heart.

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,

372. for another day to rise and shine, every day you're alive is something to be thankful for

373. for the smiles of others, what a miserable world it would be without them

374. thankful that I can smile and for the things that bring a smile to my lips each day

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 !

If you don't start out the day with a smile, it's not too late to start practicing for tomorrow.

Author Unknown

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

Love,

2 comments:

linda m said...: My Momma always told me to smile. She would say that if I frowned my face would freeze that way So I always try to smile. Momma's are always right aren't they? Blessings; March 19, 2013 at 8:47 AM
betty said...: How fitting that the last day of winter is a smiling day!!! Lots of bright smiles on your blog this morning Ma!! Sending a smile back to you!

betty; March 19, 2013 at 11:13 AM

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