BRIGHT SIDE ARCHIVES FROM AOL: FOR MONDAY, SEPTEPBER 5, 20O5

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 2005

TODAY'S THOUGHT

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step Martin Luther King, Jr.

TODAY'S ACTION

Always look to the good you can do in every situation

TODAY'S QUOTE

Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change. Education is essential to change, for education creates both new wants and the ability to satisfy them
Henry Steele Commager

HAPPY MONDAY!

Happy Labor Day I'm glad and thankful for a job to go to. When I think about all the people with out one and I'm sorry for all the times I hated to have to go to work. Why does it take something terrible happening to remind us of how blessed we are??? The good Lord sure does shake us up every now and then.

Today I'm working on the gifts that will need to be done for the coming birthdays in my family. DD and her hubby will probably be by later for a visit . I had a great day yesterday with the campers and will post pictures on my journal page-GOOD MORNING SUNSHINE.

Have a great day ! Another wonderful one on the Way !

TODAY IS...HOUSEKEEPERS DAY !

Without housekeepers our lives would be in chaos, and our homes would be like messy little pig pens!
HURRAY FOR HOUSEKEEPERS!
A day is not enough - lets give em' a whole month! Maybe even a whole year!

And if you do your own housekeeping, pat yourself on the back - and take the day off

TODAY'S TRIVIA

1774: The first Continental Congress convened in secret in Philadelphia 1836: Sam Houston was elected president of the Republic of Texas

1882: 10,000 workers marched in the first Labor Day parade in New York City

1885: 1st gasoline pump is delivered to a gasoline dealer -- Jake Gumper of Ft. Wayne, Indiana

1956: Johnny Cash hit the record charts running, with "I Walk The Line". Cash's debut hit song climbed to number 17 on the pop music charts

1987: After 30 years on television, "American Bandstand," hosted by Dick Clark, was canceled

1997: Mother Teresa died of a heart attack in Calcutta, where she established her Missionaries of Charity order. She opened her first Calcutta slum school in 1949. She was 87

TODAY'S SMILE

Tom had never been on a fishing boat before, and he was now thinking it was the most stupid thing he'd ever done in his life. Who would ever have believed that seasickness could be this awful? With every pitch and roll, Tom wondered how he was going to survive the remaining two hours of the trip.

One of the deckhands came up to him and said, "Don't worry, young fella. Nobody ever died of seasickness."

"You've just taken away my last hope for relief," Tom said

ONE MORE...

An exasperated mother, whose son was always getting into mischief, finally asked him, "How do you expect to get into heaven?"

The boy thought it over and said, "Well, I'll just run in and out, and in and out, and keep slamming the door until St. Peter says, For heaven's sake, Jimmy, either come in or stay out

TODAY'S WORD

idiosyncratic

Pronunciation: /id-ee-oh-sin-KRAT-ic/
adj : of or pertaining to a peculiar individual trait

His idiosyncratic sleeping hours makes you wonder how he functions at work

TODAY'S REFLECTION

Great is our Lord, and mighty in power; His understanding is infinite Psalm 147:5

One of the beautiful sights of nature is a mother bird settled with her nestlings in the nest. The psalmist tells us that God lovingly cares for each of us, if we come to him, believing and surrendering our lives to his care