BRIGHT SIDE ARCHIVES FROM AOL: FOR SATURDAY, JANUARY 26TH , 2008

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

JANUARY 26TH, 2008

TODAY'S THOUGHT

Circumstance does not make me, it reveals me.

William James

TODAY’S ACTION

Face your challenges with determination and resiliency

TODAY’S QUOTE

Keep your head and your heart in the right direction and you’ll never have to worry about your feet.

Author Unknown

HAPPY SATURDAY !!

I’ll be off on my trip to central Ohio’s Stroll for Epilepsy early this morning. It is a 2 hour trip and hopefully the snow will stay away and the roads will be clear. They are saying most of us will only get a ‘dusting’ of that white stuff on the ground.

The Good Lord willing we’ll all have safe journeys there and back. Several others in my family will be joining DS#1 and his family there for the Stroll. This is all done in honor of my little granddaughter ‘Our Sweetheart’ who has had epilepsy most of her 5 years of life.

I hope not to forget my camera and plan to take some pictures to share with you all.

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

TO REMEMBER…

I am in the hands of God, and in God’s time all things will be made well.

TODAY IS…ALZHEIMERS DISEASE AWARENESS

Help raise awareness for the importance of finding treatments, preventions, and a cure for Alzheimer’s Disease.

Alzheimer’s Association http://www.alz.org/index.asp

TODAY’S TRIVIA

1784 - Ben Franklin wrote to his daughter to tell her that he was unhappy that the bald eagle had been chosen as the national bird of the United States. He mentioned that he believed the turkey would have been a much more respectable choice.

1837 - 32 years and 15 days after Michigan was organized as a territory, it became the 26th state of the United States of America. Named Michigan after the American Indian word, Michigama, meaning great or large lake, Michigan borders four of the Great Lakes, and is divided into two peninsulas by the Straits of Mackinac that connect Lakes Michigan and Huron. Michigan is nicknamed the Wolverine State (although wolverines are very rare there) and/or the Great Lake State (its shores touch four of the five Great Lakes). The state bird is the robin; the state flower: apple blossom; state tree: white pine; state fish: trout; state gem: Isle Royal Greenstone aka Chlorastrolite. The state flag, which is blue charged with the arms of the state, waves over the state capital of Lansing.

1961 - President John F. Kennedy appointed Dr. Janet G. Travell (Mrs. John Powell) to the post of personal physician to the President. Dr. Travell was the woman to hold that post

1987 - “Things go better with Coke...” Coca-Cola was named the #1 soft drink in America. Pepsi-Cola was in the #2 position

TODAY’S SMILE

Driving home from her office one summer day, a woman noted that there were four places within two blocks of her home where she could stop and buy a five-cent glass of iced tea.

Each little stand had two or three youngsters behind it, all eager to serve any customer who came their way. During the next two weeks, the woman managed to stop at each of the stands to encourage the entrepreneurs. In each case the tea was very good.

Small talk revealed that all the youngsters were selling tea made by their mothers, who used tea leaves and real lemons in making the tea.

One day the woman discovered that only one stand was operating. Behind it was the new kid on the block. She stopped and ordered a glass of tea. It was served in a paper cup and it cost 10 cents.

Some conversation brought out the fact that the young man's father was a lawyer who specialized in mergers, which had inspired the boy to buy out his competitors, bartering with baseball cards, marbles, and stuff he had laying around in his garage.

His first act, he explained, was to raise the price of the iced tea, and cut costs. He was using a powdered tea mix from the supermarket, he said, which eliminated buying real lemons as well as the bother of squeezing them or putting them in the juicer.

He didn't have to brew real tea either, he pointed out. He had plans to cut costs further, he said, and with his competitors out of the market, he expected sales to grow.

Intrigued, the woman made a half dozen more stops at the stand and became aware that the tea was getting weaker and weaker. One day the young man confessed that sales were dropping and he attributed this to the fact that he was using less and less of the powdered-tea mix.

Then one day he went out of business, as attempts to turn things around failed.

The moral of this story is: 'Honest Tea' is the best policy!

Author Unknown

TODAY’S WORD

disheveled \dih-SHEV-uhld\, adjective;

also dishevelled:

In loose disorder; disarranged; unkempt; as, "disheveled hair

Disheveled is from Old French descheveler, "to disarrange the hair," from des-, "apart" (from Latin dis-) + chevel, "hair," from Latin capillus

TODAY’S REFLECTION

Don't be discouraged or grow weak from fear! The Lord your God wins victory after victory and is always with you. He celebrates and sings because of you, and he will refresh your life with his love.

Zephaniah 3:16-17

What a joyful, encouraging message in today's scripture! You can take discouragement and change it to encouragement because you know the Lord is on your side. He will guide you to victory and you can celebrate and sing with him!

Have you noticed that "courage" is the central point in both "discourage" and "encourage"? You needn't be burdened with discouragement, anxiety and fear. The Lord your God will give you the courage you need to bring about your victory over any obstacle in your path

http://www.ourprayer.org

TODAY’S ADVICE FROM THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC

Lemons are great for cleaning piano keys, china, glass, baby bottles, porcelain, marble, and copper

54 DAYS UNTIL SPRING !

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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