BRIGHT SIDE ARCHIVES FROM AOL: FOR MONDAY, MARCH 3rd, 2008

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

MARCH 3RD, 2008

TODAY'S THOUGHT

God speaks in the silence of the heart. Listening is the beginning of prayer. Mother Teresa

TODAY’S ACTION

Let go of your anger and frustration. Trust that things will be fine

TODAY’S QUOTE

Do not start today, with the broken pieces of Yesterday

HAPPY MONDAY !!

BACK TO WORK !

I hope you all had a great weekend and are ready for another week. I did have a good one. Saturday I went out with DD and her hubby and got the title to the camper I bought from them transferred then we went to lunch and DD and I also went to the Southside mall to see what bargains we could find as they have huge discounts on everything since they are going out of business.

Sunday was church and a quiet day here at home. I did a little bit of everything and not much of nothing… but I guess it is looking better than it did around here.

The sun came out and after I got home from church I sat on the back porch steps and just soaked up some sun. I didn’t stay out long, but it sure felt good. We got up to 43 degrees which is a heat wave compared to some of the days we’ve had lately.

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…OPEN WIDE DAY

George Washington's dentist invented the first "dental foot engine" in 1790. (He used his mother's foot-treadle spinning wheel to rotate the drill). Today, dental drills are turbine-powered and rotate about 300,000 revolutions per minute. This means less time in the dentist's chair - and aren't we glad!

TODAY’S TRIVIA

Today is I Want You to Be Happy Day, a day to be thoughtful to others

Today is the 10th annual Read Across America Day, celebrating Dr. Seuss's birthday, sponsored by the National Education Association. The NEA encourages every American child to read a book today.

Today is Florida Admission Day. It became the 27th U.S. state on this day in 1845. The word ‘Florida’ comes from the Spanish ‘feast of flowers’. But we call it the Sunshine State. The capital of the Sunshine State is ... no, not Walt Disney World ... Tallahassee. The state flower is the fragrant orange blossom and the mockingbird is the state bird. The Florida state motto is: “In God we trust.”

National Cheerleading Week, National Procrastination Week, National School Breakfast Week, Newspaper in Education Week, and National Sleep Awareness Week all begin today.

1931: "The Star-Spangled Banner" became the official national anthem of the United States. The song was written by Francis Scott Key

TODAY’S SMILE

Leola, who lived in Tennessee, had a serious telephone problem. But unlike most people, she did something about it . . . . The brand-new $10 million Ribrock Plaza Motel opened near her house and had acquired almost the same telephone number as Leola's.

From the moment the motel opened, Leola was besieged by calls not for her. Since she had the same phone number for years, she felt that she had a case to persuade the motel management to change its number. Naturally, the management refused claiming that it could not change all its stationery, etc. The phone company was not helpful, either. A number was a number, and just because a customer was getting someone else's calls 24 hours a day didn't make it responsible. After her pleas fell on deaf ears, Leola decided to take matters into her own hands.

At 9 o'clock the phone rang. Someone from Memphis was calling the motel and asked for a room for the following Tuesday. Leola said, "No problem. How many nights?" A few hours later Dallas checked in. A secretary wanted a suite with two bedrooms for a week.

Emboldened, Leola said the Presidential Suite on the 10th floor was available for $600 a night. The secretary said that she would take it and asked if the hotel wanted a deposit. "No, that won't be necessary," Leola said. "We trust you."

The next day was a busy one for Leola. In the morning, she booked an electric appliance manufacturers convention for Memorial Day weekend, a college prom and a reunion of the 82nd Airborne veterans from World War II.

She turned on her answering machine during lunchtime so that she could watch Days Of Our Lives, but her biggest challenge came in the afternoon when a mother called to book the ballroom for her daughter's wedding in June.

Leola assured the woman that it would be no problem and asked if she would be providing the flowers or did she want the hotel to take care of it. The mother said that she would prefer the hotel to handle the floral arrangements.

Then the question of valet parking came up. Once again Leola was helpful. "There's no charge for valet parking, but we always recommend that the client tips the drivers."

Within a few months, the Ribrock Plaza Motel was a disaster area. People kept showing up for weddings, bar mitzvahs, and Sweet Sixteen parties and were all told there were no such events. Leola had her final revenge when she read in the local paper that the motel might go bankrupt.

Her phone rang, and an executive from Marriott said: "We're prepared to offer you $200,000 for your motel." Leola replies . . . . "We'll take it . . . . . . . . . . . but only if you change your phone number."

Author Unknown

TODAY’S WORD

garrulous \GAIR-uh-lus; GAIR-yuh-\, adjective:

1. Talking much, especially about commonplace or trivial things; talkative.

2. Wordy. Garrulous is from Latin garrulus, from garrire, "to chatter, to babble

TODAY’S REFLECTION

And going a little farther, Jesus threw himself on the ground and prayed, My Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass from me; yet not what I want but what you want. Matthew 26:39 Whenever I have found myself in situations where I feel worried and unsettled, I end up saying to myself, at least initially, "What do I do?

What do I do to make this feeling go away? What do I do to make this right?" I know that I’m not alone in this sort of thought process; because I have heard a whole lot of people say the exact same thing.

What this sort of mindset reveals is a dependence on the self. In certain circles, this sort of a mentality is viewed in a positive light. However, when we look at our passage for today, Jesus displays a different sort of reliance.

In Jesus we have the example of someone who knows the trials that he is about to face, the pain and betrayal that are about to be unveiled. Instead of saying, "What do I do", Jesus says, "Not what I want but what You want".

In that prayer, Jesus was filled with the strength, courage, and security he needed to be able to face the excruciating hours that were about to befall him. His security was not found in himself, but in his Divine Father

It is in God that we are able to find the security that we long for. It is in God that we are able to receive the answers that we crave. It is in God that we are lifted up out of the situations that cause us to wonder if we will ever be okay again.

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TODAY’S ADVICE FROM THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC

Heavy bedclothes cause restlessness and weariness

17 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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