ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: For Wednesday, March 5th, 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

Wednesday, March 5, 2025

For Wednesday, March 5th, 2025

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 5TH, 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: 6:53 am

Sunset: 6:34
pm

Life is a special
o
ccasion!

Hallmark!

Today is National Cheese Doodle Day which celebrates a snack food made with cornmeal that has been puffed and baked, and coated with cheddar cheese. Morrie Yohai invented them in the 1940’s. After serving as a Marine in WWII, he returned to his home in the Bronx and took over the family business, a snack food company called Old London Foods.

During the 1960’s Wise Foods, Inc. acquired the company and cheese doodles became part of the potato chip division, Today cheese doodles are one of Wise’s strongest brands. The company produces over 15 million pounds of cheese doodles each year. That’s enough to fill 36 Olympic sized swimming pools!

Celebrate today and pick up a bag of cheese doodles to enjoy at home!

Today is also Ash Wednesday

If you cannot see the bright side polish the dull side

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

I eat a lot. I eat three times a day and I snack.

Suzanne Somers

I do love cheese doodles and used to eat a lot of them. It seems once you start, you can’t stop. I also ate them in party mix mixture, that contained, pretzels and corn chips. I loved the cheesy flavor. Now a days, I don’t eat them because of the salt content, I haven’t found a salt free brand yet.

Tomorrow afternoon I am going to my first rehab appointment. I think it will be a lot of exercises. I just hope I can keep up. I really don’t know what to expect, but I’ll find out! It’s all about making my heart stronger. DS#2 is giving me a ride and I’m very thankful for that.

It is supposed to be in the 70’s today and only partly cloudy. We’ve had some really high winds the last 2 days and we’ve had a Red Flag Warning. That is the danger of fire because it’s so dry here. Today the wind has stopped and it will be a wonderful day to be out and about.

I hope you all have a WONDERFUL Wednesday!

COUNTING MY GIFTS

Life is too short for bad snacks.

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

13,185. for cheese doodles to snack on. Yum!

13,186. for snacks of all kinds that get us through the day

13,187. for a ride to my appointment

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

Just because something is cheesy, doesn't mean it’s not good.

a smile,a word of cheer,

A bit of love from someone dear…

Love,

You're blessed when you're content with just who you are—no more, no less. That's the moment you find yourselves proud owners of everything that can't be bought

Matthew 5:5 (MSG)

3 comments:

I'm mostly known as 'MA' said...: Celebrate today and pick up a bag of cheese doodles to enjoy at home!; March 5, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Mevely317 said...: Like Doritos, Cheese doodles are some of my favorite things! Besides weight gain, I think the only reason I don't indulge is the orange stains they leave on my fingers.
After last evening's storms our weather's turned sharply cooler and windy. We're having fire warnings here, too. Such a tumultuous month for first responders. I'll be thinking of you tomorrow at rehab; please don't try and overdo.; March 5, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Chatty Crone said...: Cheese Doodle Day - and boy they leave your fingers orange. LOL We had storms too last night. Hope that rehab goes great tomorrow! Let us know.; March 5, 2025 at 4:48 PM

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