ON THE BRIGHT SIDE: For Saturday. February 7th, 2026

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

Saturday, February 7, 2026

For Saturday. February 7th, 2026

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 7TH, 2026

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: 7:16 am

Sunset: 6:16
pm

Life is a special occasion !

Hallmark

Today is National Fettuccine Alfredo Day which celebrates a delicious pasta dish made with fettuccine noodles, tossed with butter and melted parmesan cheese.

Each pasta shape holds sauce in a slightly different way. For example wide noodles like fettuccine are best suited to thick cream sauces while short or hollow shapes like Rotini or Penne work best with chunky tomato based sauces.

A chef named Alfredo di Lelio served the first plate of Fettuccine Alfredo in 1908, His wife had just given birth and he invented this dish to entice her into eating again, and it worked. Soon after he began serving it at his restaurant in Rome.

It is delicious on its own, or with vegetables and seafood on top. Celebrate today and cook this delicious dish for your family and friends tonight. Bon Appetite!

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

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Fettuccine Alfredo is macaroni and cheese for adults.

Mitch Hedberg

The pictures today are of different kinds of pasta I have make. I couldn’t find any with ‘fettuccine alfredo, but we do have it often here to eat. My daughter makes it and my grandson loves it. It is very good.

I try to limit the amount of pasta I eat. I do enjoy it but eat it in moderation

We have different types of pasta quite often and everyone loves it! It’s a quick and easy dish for my daughter to make for dinner.

I don’t know if Alfredo is in the plans today, but I do see some leftover pasta with italian sausage in it that I can enjoy for lunch today!

I hope you all have a SUPER Saturday!

COUNTING MY GIFTS

Pasta is more than just a food; it’s a celebration of life’s simplest pleasures.

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

14,032. for a variety of pasta to eat

14,033. for chef Alfredo’s invention, delicious

14,034.for my daughter who is a great cook!

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

Pasta doesn’t make you fat; how much pasta you eat makes you fat.

Giada De Laurentiis

a smile,a word of cheer,

A bit of love from someone dear…

Love,

3 comments:

I'm mostly known as 'MA' said...: Celebrate today and cook this delicious dish for your family and friends tonight!; February 7, 2026 at 8:54 AM
Chatty Crone said...: I have to tell you my daughter LOVES pasta! Hope you can have some this weekend.; February 7, 2026 at 2:37 PM
Mevely317 said...: My hubs had Fettuccine Alfredo for lunch yesterday at Olive Garden! I'm not so fond of pasta, but our waiter always brings him extra Alfredo sauce that I, in turn, like to pour over my salmon. Yum.; February 7, 2026 at 6:29 PM

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