ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
NOVEMBER 19TH, 2006
TODAY'S THOUGHT
Never minimize your ability to think your way through any situation.
Dr. Norman Vincent Peale
TODAY’S ACTION
Look for an opportunity to make a positive difference.
TODAY’S QUOTE
He who forgets the language of gratitude is not likely to be on speaking terms with God.
HAPPY SUNDAY
My 'sunshine' babes made it in yesterday afternoon safe and sound. It was so nice to have
Please pray for God's protection of our troops and HIS wisdom for their commanders. Lord, hold our troops in your loving hands. Protect them as they protect us. Bless them and their families for the selfless acts they perform for us in our time of need. I ask this in the name of Jesus, our Lord and Savior.
TODAY IS…PLAY MONOPOLY DAY !
Parker Brothers launched Monopoly Today in 1935. The most expensive Monopoly Set was created by jeweler Sidney Mobell of San Francisco in 1988. The $2-million dollar set is 23-karat gold and the dice have 42 full cut diamonds for spots.
TODAY’S TRIVIA
1863: President Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address as he dedicated a national cemetery at the site of the Civil War battlefield in Pennsylvania President Lincoln traveled to the site of the battle to designate it as a national cemetery. While on the train, he wrote his speech on a small piece of paper. Three minutes after he had begun to speak, Lincoln had finished what is now considered to be one of the greatest speeches in American history:
It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us - that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion - that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people - by the people - for the people - shall not perish from this earth.
1923: A festival was held to honor the merger of the Hungarian cities of Buda and Pest. The Budapest festival featured the premieres of Dohnanyi's "Festival Overture"... Kodaly's "Psalmus Hungaricus"... and Bartok's "Dance Suite."
1961: A year after Chubby Checker reached the #1 spot with "The Twist", the singer appeared on "The Ed Sullivan Show" to sing the song again. "The Twist" became the first record to reach #1 a second time around. It went #1 for the second time on January 13, 1962
1969: "Apollo 12" astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean made man's second landing on the moon.
1989. Twenty inches of lake effect snow fell east of Cleveland, Ohio
TODAY’S SMILE
Bob took his 4 year old son, Josh, out to McDonald's for dinner one evening for a "guy night". As they were eating hamburgers, Josh asked "Daddy, what are these little things on the hamburger buns?" He responded that they were tiny seeds and were ok to eat. His son was quiet for a couple of minutes and obviously in deep thought.
Finally, Josh looked up and said, "Dad, if we go home and plant these seeds in our backyard, we will have enough hamburgers to last forever." Some interesting Bible trivia for you today Where does it tell about men wiping dishes?
2 Kings 21:13
And I will stretch over Jerusalem the line of Samaria, and the plummet of the house of Ahab: and I will wipe Jerusalem as a man wipeth a dish, wiping it, and turning it upside down. (Just thought you might like to know—especially with the holidays coming)
TODAY’S WORD
tattoo \ta-TOO\ noun
1 : a rapid rhythmic rapping 2 a : a call sounded shortly before taps as notice to go to quarters b : outdoor military exercise given by troops as evening entertainment
I was awakened by a woodpecker beating a tattoo against the drainpipe outside my window—alerting other woodpeckers, and me, to his presence
Today's word has nothing to do with skin markings. That other "tattoo" comes from the Tahitian word "tatau." Today's "tattoo" comes from the Dutch colloquialism "tap toe," which can be translated as "turn off the tap," though it was most often used to mean something like "Shut up! Cease!" This "taptoo" most likely led to our "taps," a term for the final bugle call at night in the military.
TODAY’S REFLECTION
Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.
Colossians 3:13-14
Follow Christ. Live for God each day. Live the example of Christ.
The Key to forgiving others is to remember how much God has forgiven us.
It requires only an ounce of grace and a thimble full of brains to hold a grudge; but to entirely forget an injury is truly beautiful.
The Defender
TODAY’S ADVICE FROM THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC
Everyone can keep house better than her mother until she trieth.
32 DAYS UNTIL WINTER !
Delight yourself in the Lord and He will give you the desires of your Heart
Psalm 37:4
I Love You All !!!
Be Blessed !!!
MA
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