ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
JANUARY 3RD,2OO7
TODAY'S THOUGHT
The happiest of people don't necessarily have the best of everything; they just make the most of everything that comes along their way.
Anonymous
TODAY’S ACTION
Improve your attitude
TODAY’S QUOTE
"A. D." -- the world writes the letters carelessly as it turns the page to record for the first time the new year; but in these letters is the "open secret" of the ages, for this , too, is "a year of our Lord," an "acceptable year," a "year of grace.
Jesse B. Thomas
HAPPY WEDNESDAY
It was a beautiful sunny day yesterday. Of course it would be since I went back to work. I shouldn’t complain though because our weather has been unusually mild for this time of year. I’m sure we are still in for freezing temps and ice and snow, but meanwhile I’m enjoying what we have while we have it.
DS#2 and family left for home as I was leaving for work Tuesday morning and this weather is good for them traveling too! He called yesterday evening to let me know they’d stopped for the night and were making good time as they were over half way home and they would be at their home today.
The rest of this week should be a pretty quiet one with nothing special on the calendar. Sounds like I’m back to normal for sure.
Have a great day all ! Another wonderful one on the Way !
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…SILLY PUTTY DAY
During WWII, General Electric tried to make a cheap substitute for rubber. A company engineer came up with a compound he called "nutty putty", but nobody know what to do with it. In 1949, Paul Hodgson saw some "nuttyputty" at a party. He bought some putty, separated it into half-ounce balls, and sold it inside colored plastic eggs as Silly Putty. When it outsold every other item in his toy store, he mass produced Silly Putty as "the toy with one moving part".
TODAY’S TRIVIA
Today is National Chocolate Covered Cherry Day.
1871 - A Binghamton, NY chap named Henry W. Bradley patented oleomargarine this day. How many of you want to reveal your age by saying you remember when oleomargarine was white and was sold in plastic bags with a color tab inside the bag? What fun it was to break that tab and squish the yellow color through the oleomargarine!
1938: The "March of Dimes" campaign to fight polio was organized.
1959: President Eisenhower signed a proclamation admitting Alaska to the Union as the 49th state.
1977: Apple Computer incorporated.
TODAY’S SMILE
Weird Things You Would Never Need to Know!
Butterflies taste with their feet.
A duck's quack doesn't echo, and no one knows why.
In 10 minutes, a hurricane releases more energy than all of the world's nuclear weapons combined.
On average, 100 people choke to death on ball-point pens every year.
On average people fear spiders more than they do death.
Ninety percent of New York City cabbies are recently arrived immigrants.
Thirty-five percent of the people who use personal ads for dating are already married.
Elephants are the only animals that can't jump.
Only one person in two billion will live to be 116 or older.
It's possible to lead a cow upstairs, but not downstairs.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
It's physically impossible for you to lick your elbow.
The Main Library at Indiana University sinks over an inch every year because when it was built, engineers failed to take into account the weight of all the books that would occupy the building.
A snail can sleep for three years.
No word in the English language rhymes with "MONTH."
Average life span of a major league baseball: 7 pitches.
Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing. SCARY!
The electric chair was invented by a dentist.
All polar bears are left-handed.
In ancient Egypt, priests plucked EVERY hair from their bodies, including their eyebrows and eyelashes.
An ostrich's eye is bigger than its brain.
TYPEWRITER is the longest word that can be made using the letters only on one row of the keyboard.
"Go," is the shortest complete sentence in the English language.
If Barbie were life-size, her measurements would be 39-23-33. She would stand seven feet, two inches tall.
A crocodile cannot stick its tongue out.
Americans on average eat 18 acres of pizza every day.
Almost everyone who reads this email will try to lick their elbow.
Don't forget to pass these weird facts on to everyone you know. They will get a kick out of it !!
You tried to lick your elbow, didn't you? :-]
Found circulating the Net!
TODAY’S WORD
Exegesis
\ek-suh-JEE-sis\, noun; plural exegeses \-seez\:
Exposition; explanation; especially, a critical explanation of a text.
TODAY’S REFLECTION
Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal; but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust destroys and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also.
Matthew 6:19-21
This passage is one of many references Jesus made to the use of money and possessions. In fact, someone has calculated that about 15 percent of everything Christ said relates to this topic -- to give you a little perspective, that's more than his teachings on heaven and hell combined.
So why did Jesus put such an emphasis on money and possessions? The reason is that there is a fundamental connection between our spiritual lives and how we think about and handle our money. We may try to separate our faith and our finances, but God sees them as inseparable.
God doesn't care so much about your money. He wants your heart. But he knows that your heart will always follow your treasures. That's the curse of all that we own.
"Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also."
From Thought for Today http://www.tftd-online.com
TODAY’S ADVICE FROM THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC
Lemons are great for cleaning piano keys, china, glass, baby bottles, porcelain, marble, and copper.
76 DAYS UNTIL SPRING!
Full Wolf Moon
This full Moon is also known as the Old Moon. To some Native American tribes, this was the Snow Moon, but most applied that name to the next full Moon, in February.
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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