ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
NOVEMBER 2ND, 2OO7
TODAY'S THOUGHT
Conscience is not the voice of God; it is the gift of God.
TODAY’S ACTION
When someone does something good, Applaud! You will make two people happy.
Samuel Goldwyn
TODAY’S QUOTE
If I try to be like him, who will be like me?
Yiddish proverb
HAPPY FRIDAY !!
DS#4 and his family arrived home last evening and it is so good to have them home.
Today we’ll have a busy day as I’ve got a funeral to attend. One of my uncles passed away on Wednesday. My Aunt ( my mom’s youngest sister) and her family will be in my prayers.
May our dear Lord comfort them all at this time of deep sorrow. After the funeral DDIL#4 wants to go the Candle Factory, so we’ll making a little trip to that, then home to bake a cake and make some macaroni salad for DD’s party on Saturday.
I have the day off and it’s a good thing for sure.
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.
DS#1 and his wife have asked for prayers for a dear friend of theirs He was admitted Saturday and they have run lots of tests and finally found that he has two arteries 80% blocked. This makes his heart too weak for them to go in and try to clear them. They put him on some medication today to try and strengthen the heart so they can do surgery. Unfortunately if the medication is unsuccessful the next option is a heart transplant.
He is a few years older than them so probably 39 years old - way too young for this! Please keep this young man in your prayers.
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…PIGGY BANK DAY
During the Middle Ages, metal was expensive and rarely used for household utinsels. They used an orange clay called "pygg" to make dishes, pots and jars. And when people saved money at home, they put it in a "pygg jar". The name stuck long after the orange clay was forgotten. By the 18th century in England, the pygg jar had become the pig jar or pig bank. Eventually, potters cast the pig bank in the shape of this common name.
TODAY’S TRIVIA
Today is Deviled Egg Day and Piggy Bank Day, a good day to take your lunch to work and save.
Today is All Souls' Day
Today is North Dakota Day and South Dakota Day. North Dakota became the 39th U.S. state on this date in 1889, South Dakota became the 40th state.
1976: Georgia peanut farmer Jimmy Carter was elected President of the U.S.
TODAY’S SMILE
The late Danny Thomas lost his life savings of $600.00 at a time when he was out of work. He and his wife, Rosie, had a baby on the way, and they needed money. Danny worked at part-time jobs so Rosie could buy groceries. He also borrowed money from friends.
It was a tough time in his life. A week before the baby was born, Danny had the grand total of seven dollars and eighty-five cents to his name. What would he do? "My despair led me to my first exposure to the powers of faith," Danny would later recall. On Sunday morning Danny went to church. When the offering plate was passed he put in his "usual one dollar."
But something unexpected happened that day. A special missions offering was taken. The priest explained where the mission offering would go, and Danny felt he had to give something. "I got carried away," Danny said, "and ended up giving my seven dollars."
He had given away all his money that Sunday. What in the world had he done? He walked up to the altar rail, got on his knees and prayed aloud. "Look, I've given my last seven bucks," he prayed. "I need it back tenfold because I've got a kid on the way, and I have to pay the hospital bill."
He went home with a mere eighty-five cents in his pocket--all the money he had in the world. "You won't believe this," Danny Thomas later wrote, "but the next morning the phone rang in the rooming house hall." It was a job offer.
He was offered a part in a commercial. The job wasn't much but the pay was good--seventy-five dollars. "I literally dropped the telephone receiver," Danny remembered. "First I whooped with joy; then an eerie feeling came over me." He remembered what he had prayed at church the day before. "The seventy-five dollar fee," he said, "unheard of for me at that time was almost exactly ten times the amount of money I had donated to the church."
"Like Parent, Like Child," by Dr. Arthur G. Ferry, Jr.
TODAY’S WORD
parley \PAR-lee\, noun:
A conference or discussion, especially with an enemy, as with regard to a truce or other matters. Whether the Indians came out to parley or, seeing that the fort was about to fall, came out to surrender is unclear
TODAY’S REFLECTION
All the days planned for me were written in your book before I was one day old.
Psalm 139:16
No person lives one day more or less than God intends. “All the days planned for me were written in your book before I was one day old.”
We speak of a short life, but compared to eternity, who has a long one? A person’s days on earth may appear as a drop in the ocean. Yours and mine may seem like a thimbleful.
But compared to the Pacific of eternity, even the years of Methuselah filled no more than a glass… In God’s plan every life is long enough and every death is timely. And though you and I might wish for a longer life, God knows better.
1 of 365 devotionals in Grace for the Moment, Volume 2 http://www.maxlucado.com/
TODAY’S ADVICE FROM THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC
Oil your knife before chopping figs or dates to prevent sticking.
(I thought this was a handy piece of advice to those that chop up figs for Holiday baking)
50 DAYS UNTIL WINTER !
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 !!!
MA
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