BRIGHT SIDE ARCHIVES FROM AOL: FOR TUESDAY, JUNE 5TH, 2007

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

JUNE 5TH, 2007

TODAY'S THOUGHT

The beginning is always today.

Mary Wollstonecraft

TODAY’S ACTION

Welcome each day as a gift

TODAY’S QUOTE

Deep down, we know that what matters in this life is much more than winning for ourselves. What really matters is helping others win, too, even if it means slowing down and changing our course now and then.

By Fred Rogers, TV's Mr. Rogers

HAPPY TUESDAY!

AND HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO OUR PUMPKIN!

May the dear Lord bless you today and always!

I heard from DS#2 via e-mail and he had made it safely to his duty station. It seems it must be rainy season there as they were told to expect a lot of it. He sends his love to all.

We had off and on showers all day yesterday. They even cancelled the High School's Graduation ceremony until today. It will be cool with temps only in the 60’s, but will heat up again after that. It should be in the 80’s for the rest of the week with a few showers here and there.

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.

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God, I thank You for today, for the ways You will bless me, and for the ways that I will serve others in Your name

TODAY IS…BARBERSHOP QUARTET DAY

Four guys wearing straw hats, harmonizing "Sweet Adeline" or "Down by the Old Mill Stream." Well, it isn't an American invention. It all started in England during Shakespeare's time when the barbershops were also popular male hangouts. The guys sang along to a lute while waiting their turn for a hair-cut. This idea was picked up in the late 1800s in the American old West. They sang to a banjo instead of a lute, but the harmony was still sweet.

TODAY’S TRIVIA

Today is National Hunger Awareness Day

Today is National Gingerbread Day.

Today is World Environment Day, sponsored by the UN

Today is Family Yahtzee Day. Play at least one game.

1865 - Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould listened quietly and with pride as his composition, Onward Christian Soldiers, was presented for the first time in Horbury, England.

1895: William Boyd was born in Cambridge, Ohio He played Hopalong Cassidy in 66 movies and almost a hundred TV episodes.

1927 - Johnny Weissmuller set a pair of world records in swimming events. Weissmuller, who would soon become Tarzan in the movies, set marks in the 100-yard, and 220-yard, free-style swimming competition.

2004: The U.S.S. Jimmy Carter, the most advanced nuclear submarine in the U.S. Navy, was christened at a shipyard in Groton, Connecticut. With Jimmy grinning ear to ear, Wife Rosalynn broke a bottle of champagne against the sub.

TODAY’S SMILE

Another version of

THINGS ARE NOT ALWAYS AS THEY SEEM

A man was driving along in his beat up old dodge, when suddenly it broke down. He was parked on the side of the road trying fix it, when a Jaguar pulled up in front of him and offered to help.

After a few minutes the two men obviously weren't going to get the old car going again, so the Jaguar driver offered to tow the Dodge to the nearest garage. A few minutes later the two had hitched up the old Dodge to the Jaguar, and they agreed that if the Jaguar driver was going too fast, the man should blow his horn and flash his lights to get him to slow down.

With that the two men got into their cars and the Jaguar driver started to pull away with the Dodge behind it. At the first traffic light, a Ferrari pulled up beside the Jaguar and started to rev his engine.

As soon as the light turned green the Ferrari and the Jaguar hit their accelerators and took off. Before long the cars were racing at over 120 mph. As the cars speed along, they passed through a police speed trap.

The officer couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the three cars go by, and he decided that he couldn't catch them all by himself, so he decided to radio for help: "You won't believe what I just saw! I saw a Ferrari and a Jaguar doing 120 mph side by side, and a beat up old Dodge behind them flashing his lights and blowing his horn trying to get by!"

TODAY’S WORD

perfunctory \pur-FUNGK-tuh-ree\, adjective:

1. Done merely to carry out a duty; performed mechanically or routinely.

2. Lacking interest, care, or enthusiasm; indifferent.

The city's moderate hotels, however, tend to offer minimal comforts, perfunctory service and dreary decor.

TODAY’S REFLECTION

The work is too heavy for you, you cannot handle it alone.

Exodus 18:18b

Jethro, Moses' father–in–law, spoke these words to him, when he saw Moses sitting all day long settling disputes among the people. Jethro told Moses that he should train some of the people to help him make the judgments.

Moses was smart enough to take his father–in–law's advice. Some of us are too proud to accept help, or we don't want to be under obligation to others. Some of us feel that no one can do things as well as we. Others fear losing control. For whatever the reason, we are foolish not to seek and accept help, rather than being overworked, cranky and often inefficient.

When you allow others to help, you give them the joy of reaching out to their neighbor. Perhaps you'll have the chance to pass that help on to someone else sometime.

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TODAY’S ADVICE FROM THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC

When folly is bliss, 'tis ignorance to be otherwise.

16 DAYS UNTIL SUMMER !

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

Psalm 37:4

May there be a miracle in YOUR life today and may you have the EYES to SEE it!

I Love You All !!!

Be Blessed !!!

MY HOMEPAGE

I believe we should live ‘ON THE BRIGHT SIDE’

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