ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
February 22nd, 2008
TODAY'S THOUGHT
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.
William Faulkner
TODAY’S ACTION
Practice stability and dependability for without those qualities, an ability becomes nothing
TODAY’S QUOTE
Seeds of discouragement will not grow in the thankful heart
HAPPY FINALLY FRIDAY !!
One more cold snowy, icy day they say and we’ll start warming up a little. It’ll be in the 30’s tomorrow. Meanwhile there is today to get through. It won’t be too bad though because it is Friday.
When I left work yesterday the Xerox copier man was there working on our copy machine. I do hope it works better today. He says we need a new one, but that’s not in the forecast right now so We’ll be hoping he got it all fixed up.
Tonight I’ll be going to the Stations of the Cross as I’m trying to do that every Friday during Lent. I’m not sure what the weekend will hold as nothing special is planned. DD and her hubby are off on a little trip out of town so I’ll be praying for safe travels for them. All is quiet here and that is a good thing!
Keep warm and stay safe on the roads!
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…POLAR BEAR DAY
Polar bears are the world's largest land carnivore. A male stands between eight and nine feet tall and weighs between 750 and 1400 pounds. They only live in the circumpolar North, and there are five countries where they are found: U. S. (Alaska), Canada, Russia, Denmark (Greenland), and Norway
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TODAY’S TRIVIA
Today is National Chili Day
Today is National Be Humble Day
Today is Teddy Bear Day
1732: The first U.S. president, George Washington, was born at his parents' plantation in the Virginia Colony.
George Washington was really born on February 11, 1731. Over twenty years later, in 1752, Great Britain and its American colonies switched calendars from Julian to Gregorian. This switch eliminated eleven days from September of that year: September 2 was followed by September 14. At the same time, New Year's Day was changed from March 25 to January 1. Since then, historians have said that Washington was born in 1732, and the anniversary of his birth has been celebrated on February 22. Interestingly, the man who commanded the Continental Army as a four-star general was promoted posthumously to the position of six-star "General of the Armies of Congress" by an order of Jimmy Carter, who felt America's first President should also be America's highest military official.
1879: Frank Winfield Woolworth opened the nation's first 5-cent store in Utica, New York
1905 - The Rotary Club was founded in Chicago, IL by Attorney Paul Harris. A national association of the very popular civic club was formed in 1910. In 1922 the organization which was for men only, adopted the name Rotary International. It continues with millions of members throughout the world -- both men and women
TODAY’S SMILE
Cheerfulness is what greases the axles of the world. Don't go through life creaking.
H.W. Byles.
You are like the morning sun on my face
When I'm here with you, there's no better place.
And when the trials of the day get me down
You take my frown and you turn it around
When you smile at me, you just smile at me...
when you smile, just one smile, when you smile.
There is nothing that I'd rather see than the smile
I know is only for me.
And when the day is finally through,
I wish for just a smile from you
And you smile at me
you just smile at me and you smile,
just one smile, and you smile.
Smile for me, just one smile.
You make the world a better place,
You put the smile upon my face.
You bring sunshine into my day
and chase the lonely times away
when you smile at me, you just smile at me,
when you smile, just one smile, when you smile...
TODAY’S WORD
relegate \REL-uh-gayt\, transitive verb:
1. To assign to an inferior position, place, or condition.
2. To assign to an appropriate category or class.
3. To assign or refer (a matter or task, for example) to another for appropriate action.
4. To send into exile; to banish.
Relegate is from the past participle of Latin relegare, "to send away, to remove, to put aside, to reject," from re- + legare, "to send with a commission or charge
TODAY’S REFLECTION
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself…encourage you and strengthen you in every good thing you do and say.”
2 Thessalonians 2:16
Are you still in love with Jesus? Before you remember anything, remember him. If you forget anything, don’t forget him. Oh, how quickly we forget.
So much happens through the years. So many changes within. So many alterations without. And, somewhere, back there, we leave him. We don’t turn away from him…we just don’t take him with us.
Assignments come. Promotions come. Budgets are made. Kids are born, and the Christ…the Christ is forgotten.
Has it been a while since you stared at the heavens in speechless amazement? Has it been a while since you realized God’s divinity and your carnality?
If it has, then you need to know something. He is still there. He hasn’t left.
1 of 365 devotionals in Grace for the Moment, Volume 2
By Max Lucado
TODAY’S ADVICE FROM THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC
Winter’s back breaks about now
27 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 !!!
MA
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