ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: For Friday, October 18th, 2024

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, October 18, 2024

For Friday, October 18th, 2024

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

FRIDAY, OCTOBER 18TH, 2024

The moments of our lives may be bright with possibility, dark with fear or sadness, or even plain everyday gray, but God's glory never fades. May God's glory shine into the exciting lights, upsetting darks, and boring grays of your every day.

Slightly adapted from one of my morning devotionals

64 DAYS UNTIL WINTER

In TEXAS

Sunrise: 7;36 am

Sunset: 6:57
pm

Life is a special
occasion!

Hallmark!

Today is Sweetest Day which is an observance that is mostly celebrated in the Great Lakes region of the North east United States.

It is described by retail confectioners as an occasion which offers all of us an opportunity to remember the sick, aged and associates with kindness and helpfulness that we have enjoyed. It has also been referred to a concocted promotion created by the candy industry solely to increase their sales.

In truth it was concocted by confectioners in Cleveland Ohio in 1921. The Cleveland Plain Dealer’s October 8, 1921 edistioned chronicles the first Sweetest Day in Cleveland Ohio. The Sweetest Day committee distributed candy by using some of the biggest movie stars of the day, including Theda Bara and Ann Pennington.

Celebrate today and give something sweet to those you care about or who may need a little extra attention like people in nursing homes.

If you cannot see the bright side, polish the dull side

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

You fill my life with sweetness and love.

My family always celebrated Sweetest Day. My husband and I would exchange sweet gifts of candy and give them to our children too. There were also many cards sent to loved ones who were not close by.

Since I didn’t get any cards sent this year, I like to wish you all a very sweet Sweetest Day!

The pictures I’m sharing today are some of my sweeties, my family !

I hope you all have a FANTASTIC Friday!

COUNTING MY BLESSINGS

Thank you for making my heart feel light and my life feel bright!

Counting at least 3 things every day that I'm thankful for. There is truly is always something to be thankful for.

12,790. for candy to give to loved ones

12,791. for my family here in Texas!

12,792. for lots of cards to give away !

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.

Almighty and eternal God,

Protect our military

as they discharge their duties

with the shield of your strength,

may the power of your love

enable them to return home in safety

that with all who love them

they may ever praise you for your loving care.

AND bless our Police Officers, Firefighters and EMT’s.

We ask this through Christ our Lord.

Amen

GOD BLESS YOU!

ADVICE FOR TODAY

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest complement or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the power to turn a life around.

Leo Busgaglia

a smile, a word of cheer,

A bit of love from someone dear…

Love,

3 comments:

I'm mostly known as 'MA' said...: Wishing you all a very sweet Sweetest Day!; October 18, 2024 at 9:12 AM
Mevely317 said...: Happy 'Sweetest Day' to one of the sweetest bloggers I know!; October 18, 2024 at 3:08 PM
Chatty Crone said...: I didn't know it was sweetest day today! HAPPY SWEETEST DAY TO YOU!; October 18, 2024 at 11:07 PM

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