BRIGHT SIDE ARCHIVES FROM AOL: FOR MONDAY, OCTOBER 29TH, 2007

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

OCTOBER 29TH, 2OO7

TODAY'S THOUGHT

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Bob Hope

TODAY’S ACTION

Extend your love, share a story, give someone a smile.

TODAY’S QUOTE

The brook would lose its song if the rocks were removed.

Author Unknown

HAPPY MONDAY !!

It was a very fast but good weekend, now it’s back to work. The calendar here looks pretty quiet until until Thursday evening then DS#4 and his family are coming in for DD’s graduation party on Saturday.

DD graduated from her Dental Assistants classes and is now working full time as one. She worked very hard and got all A’s so she really deserves a party for sure.

The ‘Newlyweds’ will also be coming in for the party so it looks like I will have a house full. I do have plenty of beds here, so that’s a good thing. I guess I’ll be spending my evenings this week getting ready for them all.

DS#1 said there was frost on the ground at his house Sunday morning, but we didn’t see any and mowed the grass again. This is the first time I can remember mowing this late in the year. If this weather keeps up we’ll be mowing in November and that’s really unheard of.

It looks like we should be in the upper 50’s and lower 60’s all week long.

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

TODAY’S PRAYERS

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.

25 WORDS

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…DRACULA DAY

The 1931 version of Dracula was the first classic horror film made by Universal Pictures. It was based on Bram Stoker's 1897 novel. The popular vampire story had been made as a silent movie in the 1920s and was also a hit Broadway play. Hungarian stage actor Bela Lugosi starred in the smash-hit theater production and was signed to make the movie. He quickly became the definitive screen vampire, and Dracula was his most famous role. Universal's next picture was the successful movie Frankenstein.

TODAY’S TRIVIA

Today is Internet Day, marking the first connection on what would become the Internet between computers at UCLA and Stanford Research Center in California on October 29, 1969.

Today is National Oatmeal Day

1815: Songwriter Daniel Emmett was born in Mount Vernon, Ohio. During the U.S. Civil War, he wrote "Dixie."

1923: The musical 'Runnin` Wild' opened on Broadway. It introduced a new dance called "The Charleston."

1945: The first ballpoint pens went of sale at Gimbels department stores for $12.95.

1997: Comedian Bob Hope, who had entertained American troops overseas for decades, was made an honorary U.S. veteran at age 94. The congressional resolution bestowing the title was the first of its kind.

1998 - The space shuttle Discovery blasted off, returning 77-year-old U.S. Senator John Glenn to space some 36 years after he became the first American in orbit. Glenn was part of a crew of seven astronauts shepherding scientific payloads on the shuttle mission.

TODAY’S SMILE

It is possible to own too much.

A man with one watch knows what time it is.

A man with two watches is never absolutely sure.

TODAY’S LINK

Delights of Autumn http://wandascountryhome.com/pumpkin/

TODAY’S WORD

bravado \bruh-VAH-doh\, noun;

plural bravados or bravadoes \bruh-VAH-dohz\:

A real or pretended show of courage or boldness

Bravado derives from Spanish bravada and French bravade, "swagger, bravery," and is related to brave, "bold, courageous," bravura, "a brilliant style or performance," and the Italian interjections bravo! and brava! used when expressing approval of male and female performers respectively.

TODAY’S REFLECTION

And our elders and all those living in our country said to us, Take provisions for your journey...

Joshua 9:11

Life is a Journey From birth to death, life is a journey. It is just as important that we "take provisions."

Our parents provide us with lessons to prepare us for turns in the road. Then teachers provide us with a different set of lessons. These provisions make a difference in the way we are able to navigate the rough places in life's journey God leads us step by step, from event to event.

Only afterwards, as we look back over the way we have come and reconsider certain important moments in our lives in the light of all that has followed them, or when we survey the whole progress of our lives, do we experience the feeling of having been led without knowing it, the feeling that God has mysteriously guided us."

http://www.dailyguideposts.com