ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
SEPTEMBER 25TH, 2008
TODAY'S THOUGHT
A word of encouragement during a failure is worth more than an hour of praise after success.
Anonymous
TODAY’S ACTION
Today, increase your degree of caring
TODAY’S QUOTE
Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.
Gertrude Stein
HAPPY THURSDAY !!
Wednesday, HUMP day, came and went and now we are on the downhill slide into the weekend. Our weather continues to be beautiful, but I did see on the long range forecast that Friday evening and Saturday morning now have a slight chance for rain.
This evening is my Thursday night Bible study. I always try to go when I can as I figure I’m never too old to learn something new.
I found the beagle a new toy to play with as he’s not had one in awhile and he loves playing with it. It has a squeaker inside and hasn’t managed to tear it out yet so it’ll be fun for him for awhile yet. It is fun for me too, just watching him.
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.
GOD BLESS YOU !
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…COMIC BOOK DAY
The first comic strip, The Yellow Kid, ran in Sunday newspapers on February 16, 1896. In March 1897, several comic strips were made into a Sunday Journal and and sold for 5 cents. From this humble beginning, comic books were born. During the next 30 years, people became loyal fans of characters such as Dick Tracy, Little Orphan Annie, Popeye, Mutt & Jeff, Buster Brown and Krazy Kat. They have lost some fans to tv, but are still popular today.
TODAY’S TRIVIA
Today is National Crabmeat Newberg Day
Today is Gomer Pyle Day, marking the CBS-TV debut of "Gomer Pyle U.S.M.C" on this date in 1964.
Happy Birthday to the woman who can spin circles around just about any other interviewer on television, Barbara Walters, born this day in 1931
1513: Spanish explorer Vasco Balboa crossed the Isthmus of Panama and became the first known European to see the Pacific Ocean
1890 - A U.S. National Park was established in Central California. It was called Sequoia National Park after the giant redwood trees that grow there
1954: In his only appearance at the Grand Ole Opry, Elvis sang "Blue Moon of Kentucky." Talent coordinator John Denny told him to go back totruck driving
2003: The U.S. House gave the Federal Trade Commission explicit authority to create a national do not call directory
TODAY’S SMILE
Ten Commandments of Human Relations
1. Speak to people. There is nothing as nice as a cheerful word of greeting
2. Smile at people. It takes 72 muscles to frown, only 14 to smile.
3. Call people by name. It is music to anyone’s ears to hear the sound of his or her name.
4. Be friendly and helpful.
5. Be cordial. Speak and act as if everything you do is genuinely a pleasure. If it isn’t, learn to make it so.
6. Be genuinely interested in people. You can like almost anyone, if you try.
7. Be generous with praise, cautious with criticism.
8. Be considerate of the feelings of others. There are usually three sides to a controversy -- yours, the other fellow’s, and the correct one.
9. Be alert to serve. What counts most in life is what you do for others.
10. Live with a good sense of humor, a generous dose of patience, and a dash of humility appropriate to being human.
Made in God’s image, all of us have something to be valued!
TODAY’S WORD
numismatics \noo-miz-MAT-iks; -mis-; nyoo-\, noun:
the collection and study of money (and coins in particular)
Numismatics ultimately derives from the Greek nomos, a custom or convention, which has the derivative nomisma, anything sanctioned by custom, especially the current State coin. It can also refer to the study and collection of medals
TODAY’S SCAM ALERT
On AOL yesterday we were warned about the top ten scams going around the Internet. This one particularly caught my eye as it was about my Internet provider.
If you're a customer of Time Warner (which is the parent company of AOL and Switched.com), outages might not be your only problem. Clients in San Antonio, Texas, all of whom used the Road Runner Internet service, recently received e-mails sent with the company's name and logo asking them to provide account information or they would lose service. Time Warner says that people receiving these messages should delete them and contact the company
NEVER PROVIDE ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION on the Internet.
There were warnings about the FBI, face book, Halloween card e-mails, and charities too. Please DO NOT OPEN any emails if you are not familiar with the sender. The trouble in many cases like the one with Road Runner, they appear to be real but are not. Best advice I can give you is don't open anything other that the emails that you are assured of being real.
TODAY’S REFLECTION
Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity! What profit has man from all the labor which he toils at under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 1:2
All is vanity!
Today’s reading from Ecclesiastes brings home to us what we owe to the Incarnation: it is a view of the world without Christ. The world cannot satisfy even the successful. The value of everything apart from God is limited, and we reach those limits inevitably and have nowhere to go.
The reading expresses the narrowness of vision, the disappointed hopes, and the weariness of lives that ignore God. The Incarnation makes the mood of Ecclesiastes inexcusable for Christians. Once Jesus took human nature he gave an infinitely great value to human activities like the work he did for years in Nazareth.
When he rose after Calvary he made failure in any enterprise undertaken for him impossible. Following the incarnate Word may mean hardship and disappointments: it can’t mean frustration, because we follow Christ into the glory of the risen life
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TODAY’S ADVICE FROM THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC
Necessity never made a good bargain
Ben Franklin
87 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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