ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: For Wednesday, March 27th, 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

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

For Wednesday, March 27th, 2013

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

March 27TH, 2013

86 DAYS TILL SUMMER

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

It's WEDNESDAY

HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO DS#4 AND HIS WIFE TODAY

May the dear Lord Bless you both today and always!

May your marriage continue

with joy and pure delight

and may the love you have

forever be bound tight

Happy Anniversary!

I wish you both another wonderful year ahead.

An anniversary is a time to celebrate the joys of today, the memories of yesterday, and the hopes of tomorrow.

Author Unknown

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

Mignon McLaughlin

This is another long distance celebration today. I could only find one picture on my computer with just the two of them together. They are very family oriented and spend most of their free time with their boys. I'll be going to visit them in April and I'm looking forward to that.

In honor of the occasion, today is the Full Moon of March. The Full Worm Moon. At the time of this spring Moon, the ground begins to soften and earthworm casts reappear, inviting the return of robins. This is also known as the Sap Moon, as it marks the time when maple sap begins to flow and the annual tapping of maple trees begins.

Marriage creates one new family out of two. It forms a mutually helpful team. Each one complimenting the other. It's give and take and ups and downs, but thankfully more ups than downs. I think that as the years go by it only gets better and better.

A special Anniversary wish

May you always have enough happiness to keep you sweet, trials to keep you strong, success to make you eager, friends to give you comfort, wealth to meet your needs, enthusiasm to look for tomorrow, and a growing love to make each day better than the day before.

Irish Blessing

PRIORITY FOR TODAY:

Lord, you provide much more than I need, giving freely and completely before I ask. When I drink it all in, give me the manners to stop and thank you. Help me to share all I have, all the while giving you the credit for every blessing. May I be as generous as you have been to me. Amen

COUNTING MY GIFTS

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,

396. for anniversaries, an important milestone in everyone's life

397. for a time to celebrate love and marriage

398. for a special day for DS#4 and his wife

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 !

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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

Love,

2 comments:

peggy said...: Best wishes to a happy couple. It was nice to read about them.

Also I liked the moon bit...I am going outside to see if that old hard ground is giving in just a bit. My shovel is itching to get going. The sun is shining!! Praise Him!!!; March 27, 2013 at 8:32 AM
Hollie said...: HAPPY ANNIVERSARY TO DS#4 AND HIS WIFE!! I WISH THEM MANY, MANY MORE HAPPY ANNIVERSARIES!!; March 27, 2013 at 7:44 PM

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