BRIGHT SIDE ARCHIVES FROM AOL: FOR SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 2006

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

FOR SATURDAY, MARCH 25TH, 2006

TODAY'S THOUGHT

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.

Helen Keller

TODAY'S ACTION

Recognize that growing and becoming is a life-long process

TODAY'S QUOTE

Making the simple complicated is commonplace, making the complicated simple is creativity

Charles Mingus

HAPPY SATURDAY!

I’m sending this out on Friday night as I’ll be going over to the folks house shortly. I’ll be there til tomorrow night.

I heard from DS#4 today and he’s on the road quite abit now for work. He’s in Washington DC this week and Tennessee and Alabama, I think, next week. He does get to visit with his family this weekend- it’s their anniversary!

So lest I forget – Happy Anniversary –

May the dear Lord bless you both!

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

TODAY IS... CHOCOLATE COVERED RAISIN DAY

It greatly reduces "chocolate guilt" if you hide some fruit inside, so this must be the reason they invented chocolate covered raisins. Now... if we can just figure out why they came up with chocolate covered ants! Maybe to add protein ??

CHOCOLATE RAISIN BARS

2 cups vanilla wafer crumbs

1/2 cup cocoa

3 tablespoons sugar

2/3 cup cold butter, cut into pieces

1 can (14 oz) sweetened condensed milk

1 cup peanut butter chips

1-1/3 cups raisins

1 cup chopped walnuts 1.

Heat oven to 350°F. 2. In a medium bowl, stir together the crumbs, cocoa and sugar. Cut in the butter until crumbly. 3. Press mixture evenly on the bottom and 1/2-inch up the sides of 13x9x2-inch baking pan. 4. Pour the condensed milk over the crumb mixture and sprinkle on the peanut butter chips and raisins. Sprinkle nuts over the top and press down firmly. 5. Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until lightly browned. Cool completely in the pan on a wire rack. Cover with foil and let stand several hours before cutting into bars.

TODAY'S TRIVIA

Today is Old New Year's Day, the beginning of the new year in Britain and the U.S. Colonies until 1751, when both adopted the Gregorian Calendar and the new year began on January 1st Feast of the Annunciation - Celebrates the time when Angel Gabriel announced to the Virgin Mary that she was to be the mother of Christ-- nine months before the birth of Christ

Pecan Day - In 1775, George Washington planted pecan trees given to him by Thomas Jefferson

1634: English colonists sent by Lord Baltimore founded Maryland

1937: The first perfumed ad appeared in the Washington, D.C. Daily News. The ad was for flowers since it was cherry blossom time

1985: Stevie Wonder won an Academy Award for I Just Called to Say I Love You

1996: "Braveheart" won Academy Awards for best picture and best director Mel Gibson

TODAY'S SMILE

A fifth grade teacher in a Christian school asked her class to look at TV commercials and see if they could use them in some way to communicate ideas about God. Here are some of the results:

God is like BAYER ASPIRIN - - He works miracles.

God is like a FORD - - He's got a better idea.

God is like COKE - - He's the real thing.

God is like HALLMARK CARDS - - He cares enough to send His very best.

God is like GENERAL ELECTRIC - - He brings good things to life.

God is like SEARS - - He has everything.

God is like ALKA-SELTZER - - Try him - you'll like Him.

God is like SCOTCH TAPE - - You can't see him, but you know He's there.

God is like DELTA - - He's ready when you are.

God is like ALLSTATE - - You're in good hands with Him.

God is like VO-5 Hair Spray - -He holds through all kinds of weather.

God is like DIAL SOAP - -Aren't you glad you have Him.

Don't you wish everybody did.

God is like the U.S. POST OFFICE - -Neither rain, nor snow, nor sleet nor ice will keep Him from His appointed destination.

and God is like TIDE - - He gets the stains out that others leave Behind.

TODAY'S WORD

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TODAY'S REFLECTION

All these things Jesus spoke to the multitude in parables; -- that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saving: I will open My mouth in parables…

Matthew 13:34-35

As the prophet said, Jesus taught by telling stories. This is a wonderful way to teach, for we all love to hear a good story. Many a child looks forward to his or her parent reading a bedtime story before saying good night. The more we study Jesus' parables, the greater understanding we’ll have of their meaning in our lives

From Daily Guideposts

TODAY'S ADVICE FROM THE OLD FARMER'S ALMANAC

Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.

Mark Twain

88 DAYS UNTIL SUMMER

Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your Heart

Psalm 37:4

I Love You All !!!

Be Blessed !!!

MY HOMEPAGE

I believe we should live ‘ON THE BRIGHT SIDE’

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