BOOK 08, CHAPTER 3, PAGE 7

Life is short, spring into action

and live today’s beginning

 

Now seeds are just dimes to the man in the store

And the dimes are the things that he needs,

And I've been to buy them in seasons before

But have thought of them merely as seeds;

But it flashed through my mind as I took them this time,

"You purchased a miracle here for a dime."

Edgar Albert Guest

Always begin anew with the day, much as nature does; it is one of the sensible things that nature does.

George E. Woodberry

GOOD MORNING !

IT IS F R I D A Y ! A red letter day in my books for sure.

I made it through another long and very hard (weather wise) week! Nature sure is teaching us a lesson—perseverance must be the name of it.

Tomorrow is my 64th birthday. Here in the good old USA they say that the magic age of 65 is when we should retire…I’m not sure If I ever will…

I’m still thinking on that one for sure. Age is irrelevant as far as I’m concerned, the only thing that keeps me working is the ability to pay my bills and live on my own without being a burden to anyone else.

If I ever win the lottery – I’ll quite work that minute. My job is not fulfilling or anywhere near something I like to do…it is what it is…a job.

Another big snow storm is headed our way today…We’ll see how this one treats us… I hope you all have a great day! I know I will…Fridays are always wonderful days….

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Each day is a lifetime in miniature. To awaken each morning is to be born again, to fall asleep at night is to die to the day. In between waking and sleeping are the golden hours of the day. What we cannot do for a lifetime we can do for a daytime.

"Anyone," wrote Robert Louis Stevenson, "can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down."

Anyone can hold their temper for a day and guard the words they speak. Anyone can carry their burden heroically for one day.

Anyone can strive to be happy for a day and to spread happiness around.

Anyone can radiate love for a day.

Anyone can rise above fear for a day and meet each new situation with courage.

Anyone can be kind and thoughtful and considerate for a day.

Anyone can endeavor to learn something new each day and mark some growth. . . .

The supreme art of living is to strive to live each day well. . . . Live a day at a time and remember that tomorrow is another today.

Wilferd A. Peterson

May your day be filled with blessings

As new as Spring

As fragrant as flowers

As full as your heart can hold.

MA

 

 

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BOOK 08, CHAPTER 3, PAGE 6

Life is short, spring into action and live today’s beginning

You have choices to make every day.

One of those choices is to determine

what goes into your mind to help

to form the person who you are.

If you let in courage, compassion, love, hope, empathy,

peace, devotion, consideration and other such qualities,

just guess what's going to be coming out of you?

On the other hand, if you constantly fill your mind with hate,

anger, violence, murder, rape, revenge, torture, abuse,

prejudice and other such qualities,

guess what's going to be coming out of you?

You probably won't start acting like the characters

you see, but your perspective definitely will be

affected by what you've let into you.

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We can only live our moments, not our years, and our days are full of moments that are just waiting to be used well, in ways that are fulfilling and wonderful.

GOOD MORNING !

I’m getting very grouchy…

As a matter of fact it is a good thing that I was alone in my office yesterday morning until almost noon. It took me that long to calm down and accept the fact that it is still winter after all.

I had tried to clear the walkways, but to little avail before I’d left for work. They were covered with snow with a 4 inch base of frozen ice! I had tried to clear the huge mound of snow and frozen ice at the foot of the driveway…did the snow plow come along and leave that there overnight???

It was so dog gone heavy that I couldn’t move it. Well I decided to get in the car and put it in reverse to see if I got out of the driveway. That would be the deciding factor as to whether or not I was going in to work.

The roads were very hazardous and it looked to me like no snow plow had been down any of the streets. I made my own path as I drove. How then did that huge pile of frozen ice get in our drive???

On my way to work I always stop and pick up a breakfast sandwich at our local drive thru…well I couldn’t get in their parking lot as they were just starting to plow the snow out…so there went breakfast.

After I got to work I had to shovel out the entrance to door way there as a plow had done our parking lot, but left a nice 2 foot mound in front of the door. Oh yes, that was frozen too !

I’m always the first to be there by about an hour or two sometimes more as was the case yesterday… and to make matters worse…it was put the rubbish out day.

Well you know where those rubbish bins were…right… behind another 2 foot pile of frozen ice…I cannot tell you how frustrated I was.

You don’t very often hear a rant from me but you have today… Worse yet my car got stuck in the icy driveway when I got home .

I do hope today is a better day!

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Sometimes our fate resembles a fruit tree in winter.

Who would think that those branches would

turn green again and blossom, but we hope it, we know it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Life is short, spring into action and live today’s beginning

May your day be filled with blessings

As new as Spring

As fragrant as flowers

As full as your heart can hold.

MA

 

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BOOK O8, CHAPTER 3, PAGE 5

Life is short, spring into action and live today’s beginning

What a blessing it is to awaken to the unique possibilities of a new day.

The best things are nearest:

breath in your nostrils,

light in your eyes, flowers at your feet,

duties at your hand,

the path of God just before you.

Then do not grasp at the stars,

but do life's plain, common work as it comes,

certain that daily duties and daily bread

are the sweetest things of life.

Robert Louis Stevenson

You stand in this moment at a beautiful new beginning, full of promise and possibility. See it, know it, live it, and allow the joy to flow more abundantly than ever before.

Ralph Marston

GOOD MORNING !

Our daily duties can be awesome reminders of how alive we are, and just how simple life can be, and just how fulfilling life can be when it is simple. One of my favorite things in the world is to curl up with a cup of coffee, and English muffin, and a good book, and if I had to choose, I'd pick that over an expensive show or concert any day

The best things in life are free they say and although the cup of coffee , the muffin and the book may cost a little it is a simple thing .

My life has been filled with taking pleasure in simple things mainly because I’ve had very little money left over at the end of the week, but I don’t think I’d trade them for lots of other costly things.

Today we’re supposed to have some more snow . I’ll be taking it slow and easy on my way to work once more. I’ll be glad to be back home in my warm house tonight for sure.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Have you ever noticed how almost everything works in cycles, from relationships to sports to the economy to the stock market? We almost never see anything grow continually for years and years--rather, we see things grow for a while, then the growth slows or even turns into shrinking, only to return to growth later.

Author Unknown

Life is short, spring into action and live today’s beginning

May your day be filled with blessings

As new as Spring

As fragrant as flowers

As full as your heart can hold.

MA

 

 

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BOOK 08, CHAPTER 3, PAGE 4

Life is short, spring into action and live today’s beginning

 

Hope and new beginnings are fresh every morning.

It is not necessary to wait for a circumstance to bring hope.

Hope, real hope, comes when we lay down our own ideas

and plans. . . . our mind, will, and emotions. . .

before God as a hand of cards dealt and say to Him,

“How would YOU play them?”

Laura Lewis Lanier

GOOD MORNING !

Monday wasn’t so bad so I have hopes for a good Tuesday. I’m still clearing out old files (plenty of those ) at work and it’s still too quiet there. Monotonous work for sure.

Bad weather is supposed to come our way in the form of a wintry mix (rain and icy sleet) so things may be a little slippery out there. We could even get lots of snow if the wind blows just right over Lake Erie. I’ll be taking it slow and easy for sure.

I got out a lunch time and found a few more things for my camper yesterday. I picked up a hair dryer so I don’t have to take the one from home when I go and I found a cute spoon rest for the camper kitchen too ! It’s fun putting it all together and brightens these winter days for sure.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

It is easy to sit up and take notice.

What is difficult is getting up and taking action

Al Batt

Life is short, spring into action and live today’s beginning

May your day be filled with blessings

As new as Spring

As fragrant as flowers

As full as your heart can hold.

MA

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BOOK 08, CHAPTER 3, PAGE 3

 

Life is short, spring into action and live today’s beginning

Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Life is here, and life is now. Look around yourself--you are alive, and you are surrounded by wonders. Take advantage of them all and make them an important part of who you are. Your soul would appreciate the attention

GOOD MORNING !

Monday is here once more and it’s back to work. The weekend was pretty uneventful, but nice. I spent a little time yesterday afternoon putting away my bits and pieces of Valentine decorations and got out a few Spring things.

I put a green table cloth in the dining room and a green and white checked one in the kitchen. I have a shamrock candy dish on the table along with a green clear glass bunny rabbit and a green candle.

I found some of my silk spring flowers and scattered them through out the 3 downstairs rooms so things are looking a little brighter here.

I’ve got such a pile accumulating for my camper that I do hope we can make it there soon so I can unload all this stuff. It is cluttering up one corner of my dining room right now. I did get out and buy a new coffee pot for the camper too. None of my camping babes drink coffee so I’m on my own there, but as far as cooking I really shouldn’t have to do much. I can chip in with an occasional macaroni salad or deviled eggs and leave the rest pretty much up to them…they are all good cooks and always fix more than is needed.

Winter weather is supposed to continue on for us this week. Today is rainy and warmer, but tomorrow we’ll cool back down and see some more of that white stuff.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.

Oscar Hammerstein

Life is short, spring into action and live today’s beginning

May your day be filled with blessings

As new as Spring

As fragrant as flowers

As full as your heart can hold.

MA

 

 

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BOOK 08, CHAPTER 3, PAGE 2

Life is short, spring into action and live today’s beginning

 

A little story for you today…

One day, there was a blind man sitting on the steps of a building with a sign by his feet, that read: "I am blind, please help."

A creative publicist was walking by the blind man and stopped to observe that the man only had a few coins in his hat. He put a few of his own coins in the hat, and without stopping to ask for permission, took the sign, turned it around, and wrote a new message. He then placed the sign by the feet of the blind man, and left.

Later that afternoon the creative publicist returned by the blind man and noticed that his hat was almost completely full of bills and coins. The blind man recognized his footsteps and asked if it was him who had changed his sign? He also wanted to know what the man wrote on it?

The publicist replied: "I just changed your message so people could relate to it." He wished the man well, said goodbye, and went on his way.

The blind man didn't know it, but his new sign now read:

"TODAY IS SPRING AND I CANNOT SEE IT"

The Moral of the Story:

1. CHANGE YOUR STRATEGY WHEN THINGS AREN'T WORKING.

2. HAVE FAITH THAT YOUR CHANGE WILL BE FOR THE BEST.

GOOD MORNING!

And Happy R&R day to you all. At least I do hope you are getting some rest and relaxation today. I’ll be off to get my weekly dose of R & R at church pretty soon, that is my refreshment and renewal to get me though another week for sure.

It’s also Mother’s Day in England and for my UK friends I’d like to say Happy Mother’s Day to you all. We in the US don’t celebrate it until May.

I’ll be praying as always for each of you and the good Lord knows all your needs so I’m sure that any prayers will be answered…they always are.

Always know with the deepest love, God listens.

In ways neither you nor any other person may be able to understand,

God does more than listen, He acts.

You may never see what God does or how He does it.

You may live for the rest of your life

and never know what God does as a result of your faith in Him.

However, in God you can believe, in God you can hope,

in God you can trust, and in God you can find

comfort in the storms of life

Don’t forget my theme for the month -- Life is short, spring into action and live today’s beginning.

We can all live with hope of new beginnings. Today is just the first day of the rest of our lives.

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is.

And when you've got it, you want -

oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want,

but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!

Mark Twain

May your day be filled with blessings

As new as Spring

As fragrant as flowers

As full as your heart can hold.

MA

 

 

 

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BOOK 08, CHAPTER 3, PAGE 1

The Angel of March brings us stamina and courage. As winter ends, we take heart from the crocuses that push their way up through the snow.

The Angel of March cheers us on through life's frozen moments, boosting our morale and helping us achieve new landmarks. With the angel's help, we dare to break through whatever barrier, whether personal belief or lack of self-confidence, that holds us back.

We gather the will to launch a lifelong dream or begin the project we have envisioned but never dared to tackle.

As the sun begins to warm our spirits, the March angel rejoices with us at the first signs of spring and lends us courage to prepare for a new and daunting, but also fulfilling, task.

GOOD MORNING !

After thinking about all the themes I could go with this month I decided to go with -- Life is short, spring into action and live today’s beginning.

Every day we get a chance to begin again. I always like to think there will be some good things to enjoy in each day. Anticipation is half the fun sometimes. Maybe yesterday wasn’t quite what we thought it should have been, but we can put it behind us and start fresh each day.

I’ve learned a lot in my soon to be 64 years here on this old earth of ours and I’m still learning that’s for sure. I love to be surprised by small little happenings and treasure them. So I’ll be springing into action each day and love and live the beginning…

I hope you’ll join me too !

THOUGHT FOR TODAY

Springtime is the land awakening.

The March winds are the morning yawn.

Quoted by Lewis Grizzard in Kathy Sue Loudermilk, I Love You

May your day be filled with blessings

As new as Spring

As fragrant as flowers

As full as your heart can hold.

MA

 

 

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