ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: For Monday, January 13th, 2025

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

Monday, January 13, 2025

For Monday, January 13th, 2025

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

MONDAY, JANUARY 13th, 2025

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

In TEXAS

Sunrise: 7;28 am

Sunset: 5:54
pm

Life is a special
occasion!

Hallmark!

Today is National Rubber Ducky Day which celebrates Jim Henson when he preformed the Rubber Duckie song as Ernie on Sesame Street in 1970. The rubber duck bath toy has been an iconic American symbol ever since.

Rubber ducks have been around since the rise of the rubber industry in the late 1800’s, but no one knows their exact origin.

It is said that in 1992 a shipment of 29,000 rubber ducks fell off a cargo ship in the Pacific Ocean. By 2007, the friendly floties had traveled 17,000 miles around the world on the ocean currents, Some are still afloat today. Over time people have spotted them in places like Australia, Indonesia, South America, the Bering Strait, the Arctic and in the Atlantic Ocean.

Celebrate today and take a bath with your favorite rubber duck toy! Enjoy!

If you cannot see the bright side polish the dull side

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

One is never alone with a rubber duck.

Douglas Adams

I do have a couple of rubber ducks that sit on the shelf in my bathtub/shower. I no longer take baths but shower instead, so mostly they just sit on the shelf and make me smile.

They are a popular bath tub toy for kids and I would love to share them with my grand babes. Trouble is none of the younger ones live close enough to me any more.

The weekend certainly warmed up here and I have to say what a delight it was to sit out on the porch again in the sun. The rest of this week is looking much the same, with temps in the 60’s, but by Friday, they say we should be in the 70’s. YAY!

I couldn't find any rubber duck pictures to show but I did find some of real ducks.

I hope you all have a GREAT start to this new week. Happy Monday!

COUNTING MY GIFTS

Happines is like a rubber duck, you don’t know when you’ll find it, but when you do, it makes you smile.

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

13.041. for cute Rubber Duckies 13,042. for warmer days to enjoy porch sitting

13,043. for sunshine that always makes me smile

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 ALL!

ADVICE FOR TODAY

Be like a duck, paddling and working hard inside the water, but what everyone sees is a smiling calm face.

a smile,a word of cheer,

A bit of love from someone dear…

Love,

2 comments:

I'm mostly known as 'MA' said...: Enjoy a bath with your favorite floatie today and celebrate!; January 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
jack69 said...: Ok, I gotta tell you I knew nothing about the Rubber duck except its name and that there was a song. Thanks for making me smile. Had I known about that I would have looked for them as I sailed the seas for a few years. LOL
You did up some stuff lady.
Love ya! Stay wARM...; January 13, 2025 at 9:51 PM

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