BRIGHT SIDE ARCHIVES FROM AOL: FOR TUESDAY, APRIL 8th, 2008

ON THE BRIGHT SIDE

APRIL 8TH, 2008

TODAY'S THOUGHT

A minute of "thought" is worth more than an hour of talk.

TODAY’S ACTION

Spend some quiet time with your "thoughts" today

TODAY’S QUOTE

Kindness is difficult to give away because it keeps coming back

HAPPY TUESDAY !!

After a beautiful spring day with temps in the low 70’s on Monday our weather is fast going down hill. I guess we should have known it was too early to have nice weather for very long… Now they say it will rain most of the week and by Sunday we could even have a mix with s--- I just cannot even say the word.

You know the weatherman is not always right and maybe it won’t be as bad as they say…hopefully we’ll still see a few rays of sunshine now and then.

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…ZOO LOVERS DAY

It was about 1500 B.C. when Queen Hatshepsut of Egypt built the first zoo. Many private zoos were kept by rulers in Africa, India, and China between 1,000 and 400 B.C. - and a "school" zoo was built by the Greeks to study animal and plant life. But, modern zoos weren't deleveoped until the 1400's when European explorers came to the New World. When they took strange animals back home with them, public display zoos were born

TODAY’S TRIVIA

Today is Tutor Appreciation Day

Today is National Notice a Wildflower Day

Today is Draw a Picture of a Bird Day

1873 - Alfred Paraf of New York City patented the first successful oleomargarine

1974 - It was one historic night in sports in Atlanta’s Fulton County Stadium. Hank Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s home run record by collecting his 715th round-tripper. Aaron finished his career two years later with 755 home runs; a record that still stands. When he retired from baseball, Hank Aaron also held a first place record for RBIs

TODAY’S SMILE

THE MAN IN THE GORILLA SUIT

A man was looking for a job and he noticed that there was an opening at the local zoo. He inquired about the job and discovered that the zoo had a very unusual position that they wanted to fill.

Apparently their gorilla had died, and until they could get a new one, they needed someone to dress up in a gorilla suit and act like a gorilla for a few days. He was to just sit, eat, and sleep. His identity would be kept a secret of course.

Thanks to a very fine gorilla suit, no one would be the wiser. The zoo offered good pay for this job, so the man decided to do it. He tried on the suit and sure enough, he looked just like a gorilla.

They led him to the cage; he took a position at the back of the cage and pretended to sleep. But after a while, he got tired of sitting so he walked around a little bit, jumped up and down and tried a few gorilla noises.

The people who were watching him seemed to really like that. When he would move or jump around, they would clap and cheer and throw him peanuts. And the man loved peanuts. So he jumped around some more and tried climbing a tree. That seemed to really get the crowd excited. They threw more peanuts. Playing to the crowd, he grabbed a vine and swung from one side of the cage to the other. The people loved it and threw more peanuts.

Wow, this is great, he thought. He swung higher and the crowd grew bigger. He continued to swing on the vine, getting higher and higher and then all of a sudden, the vine broke! He swung up and out of the cage, landing in the lion's cage that was next door.

He panicked. There was a huge lion not twenty feet away, and it looked very hungry. So the man in the gorilla suit started jumping up and down, screaming and yelling, "Help, help! Get me out of here! I'm not really a gorilla! I'm a man in a gorilla suit! Heeellp!"

The lion quickly pounced on the man, held him down and said, "Will you be quiet! You're going to get both of us fired!!!"

LAST ONE FOR TODAY…

LIVE LONG AND PROSPER

Some rules to live a long life:

- Don't throw a brick straight up. - Walk around toxic waste dumps, not through them.

- Your body has the correct number of holes in it. Don't make any more.

- Don't microwave yourself too often.

- Don't stick body parts into electrical outlets.

- If you're on a ball field and someone shouts "Heads up!" don't actually raise your head up. Cover it with your arms and duck.

- No matter how tempting it is to be one with nature, stay on the outside of all fences at the zoo.

- When sticking thumb tacks into bulletin boards, press on the flat end.

- Don't take long naps while driving.

TODAY’S WORD

woebegone \WOE-bee-gon\, adjective:

1. Beset or overwhelmed with woe; immersed in grief or sorrow; woeful.

2. Being in a sorry condition; dismal-looking; dilapidated; run-down

Woebegone is from Middle English wo begon, from wo (from Old English wa, used to express grief) + begon, past participle of begon, "to go about, to beset," from Old English began, bigan, from bi-, "around, about" + gan, to go

TODAY’S REFLECTION

I am the bread of life; whoever comes to me will never hunger, and whoever believes in me will never thirst.

John 6: 30-35

We all need to be nourished for without nourishing we wither and die. There are times when we feel like that and those are the times when we must merely wait. But when we have the consolatory sense of the presence of Jesus in our lives there is nothing that will get us down.

Jesus brings to us the nourishing love of the Father for us. In Jesus we see one whom the Father has nourished, has given strength. In the stories about Jesus, we have shared the loving faithfulness of the Father. And so we wait for the nourishing, abiding hope that is poured into our hearts.

TODAY’S ADVICE FROM THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC

If kites fly high, fair weather is coming

73 DAYS TIL SUMMER !

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 !!!

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