ON THE BRIGHT SIDE
SEPTEMBER 4TH, 2008
TODAY'S THOUGHT
Some people are working backstage, some are playing in the orchestra, some are on-stage singing, some are in the audience as critics and some are there to applaud. Know who and where you are.
Author Unknown
TODAY’S ACTION
Renew yourself with quiet time
TODAY’S QUOTE
The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
Leo Buscaglia
HAPPY THURSDAY !!
How nice it is that this work week is flying by. Our temps rose up to the 90’s yesterday. Not like fall at all. Tomorrow may bring some rain and then it will cool down a little into the low 80’s and upper 70’s.
Wednesday went by nice and fast even though I didn’t get out at lunch time. The boss was out at meetings until the afternoon. I had plenty to do and it does make the day go by faster.
I have my Bible Study this evening. We are doing a study on St. Paul from the book of Thessalonians. I did try to read through it last evening. It’s nice to refresh your self a little. Hopefully I’ll be able to add something to the discussion. It always seems that a couple of people monopolize the time set aside for that. We’ll see…
Have a great day all ! Another wonderful one on the Way !
TODAY’S PRAYERS
DDIL #6 has requested prayers for her BIL and his family as one of his grandparents passed away and he has a long trip to go to the funeral. Please keep him and his family in your prayers as they go through this sorrowful time. May our dear Lord comfort them and bless them with safe journeys.
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…NATION NEWS PAPER CARRIER DAY
Today is the anniversary of the first "newscarrier" being hired - 10 year old Barney Flaherty in 1833. There was only one job requirement. He had to prove he could throw a newspaper into the bushes. Newspaper carriers everywhere have been following his example ever since
TODAY’S TRIVIA
Today is Edsel Day, commemorating September 4, 1957, when Ford Motor Company introduced its infamous $350-million disaster car, the 1958 Edsel. It was the first car with a wrap-around windshield, electric door locks, cruise control, and four headlights
It's Peter Rabbit's Birthday, born on this date in 1893.
Today is Beetle Bailey's Birthday. He first appeared on this date in 1950.
Today is National Macadamia Nut Day.
Today is National Bright Idea Day.
This is the birthday of one of the most written-about, talked-about, joked-about cities in the world, Los Angeles, California. LOS ANGELES was born on this day in 1781
1882 - Thomas Edison displayed the first practical electrical lighting system. The Pearl Street electric power station, Edison’'s steam powered plant, began operating and successfully turned on the lights in a one square mile area of New York City
1888: Kodak patented the world's first roll-film camera
1964: "Gilligans Island" premiered on CBS-TV. The cast was stranded for three full seasons and 98 episodes. Bob Denver was Gilligan, Alan Hale Jr. played the Skipper.
2002: Singer Kelly Clarkson was voted the first "American Idol" on the Fox TV series
TODAY’S SMILE
Make merry! Though the day be gray
Forget the clouds and let's be gay!
How short the days we linger here:
A birth, a breath, and then--the bier!
Make merry, you and I, for when
We part we may not meet again!
What tonic is there in a frown?
You may go up and I go down,
Or I go up and you--who knows
The way that either of us goes?
Make merry! Here's a laugh, for when
We part we may not meet again!
Make merry! What of frets and fears?
There is no happiness in tears.
You tremble at the cloud and lo!
'Tis gone--and so 'tis with our woe,
Full half of it but fancied ills.
Make merry! 'Tis the gloom that kills.
Make merry! There is sunshine yet,
The gloom that promised, let's forget,
The quip and jest are on the wing,
Why sorrow when we ought to sing?
Refill the cup of joy, for then
We part and may not meet again.
A smile, a jest, a joke--alas!
We come, we wonder, and we pass.
The shadow falls; so long we rest
In graves, where is no quip or jest.
Good day! Good cheer! Good-bye!
For then We part and may not meet again!
James W. Foley
TODAY’S WORD
glower \GLAU-uhr\, intransitive verb:
1. To look or stare angrily or with a scowl.
noun: 1. An angry or scowling look or stare.
Glower is from Middle English gloren, perhaps ultimately of Scandinavian origin.
TODAY’S REFLECTION
Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters; and you who have no money, come, buy and eat! Come, buy wine and milk without money and without cost.
Isaiah 55:1
Isaiah reminds us that we also thirst spiritually. Our deep needs and complete inability to meet them on our own constantly drive us toward relationship with God. Like parched athletes beset by trials, we steal wistful glances at the eternal life God has promised.
When I honestly face the disappointments of life, I become free to accept God's offer of grace. God quenches my thirst God offers soul refreshment to a thirsty world http://www.upperroom.org
TODAY’S ADVICE FROM THE OLD FARMER’S ALMANAC
For a headache, soak your feet in hot water to drain the blood from your head
18 DAYS UNTIL FALL !
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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