"I Asked God"

How are you today? I was pondering on my post for today and looked over at a little plaque that my aunt had. It reads:

I asked God for all things,

That I might enjoy life.

He gave me life,

That I might enjoy all things.

What a wonderful saying. It reminds us that we have everything we need: We have life. And, no matter what comes our way, the altitude of our attitude and our gratefulness can change even the most dire circumstances.

Look at life with an expectancy for good and an inner joy; a knowing that you are always in the Potter's hands and exactly where you need to be for each and every moment. If you do that, you'll have inner "peace that passes understanding"; you'll have unconditional love and acceptance for all and yourself; and you will "enjoy all things."

God bless you, and have a beautiful day.

In love & joy,

Donna

Make Each Morning A Fresh Beginning

You know each morning is a fresh beginning in life. In a sense there is no past, no future. Wise is the person who takes today and lives it, and tomorrow when it comes, but not before it comes.

The past is of no value except by the values and lessons it has taught us. If we learn anything, learn that there should be no regrests or crippled energies that result from regrets. Too many live in the past, always looking in the rear view mirror of life.

If we have stumbled or made mistakes, remember that all have done so at one time or another. No one's perfect. Don't allow yourself to be discouraged in the face of them. It's the person who gives himself time to recognize the cause of his mistakes, who quickly learns his lesson, and who then picks himself up and goes on without wasting even a moment on regrets who is wise. After all, sometimes it is through the stumblings that we learn the most, and your stumblings can actually become an asset to you. Keep a goin' and don't look back!

In love and joy,
Donna

Meet Trials with Smiles

There was a saying years ago that holds true for all of us today:

Thank God for the man who is cheerful
In spite of life's troubles, I say;
Who sings of a bright tomorrow,
Because of the clouds of today.
His life is a beautiful sermon,
And this is a lesson to me---
Meet trials with smiles and they vanish;
Face cares with a song and they flee.

Just be joyful. And, the more you are joyful, the more good things will come your way.

In love & joy,
Donna

Everyone Can Give This Gift Everyday

"If, instead of a gem or flower, we could cast the gift of a lovely thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give."-George McDonald

Everyday you can send someone a lovely thought. It doesn't cost anything; however, it will mean so much to them.

God bless,

Donna

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Smile

A little saying for you:


If you think you've missed the mark,
Use a Smile;
If your life seems in the dark
Why, just Smile.
Don't give up in any fight;
There's a coming day that's bright,
There's a dawn beyond the night,
If you Smile.

Make it a happy day,

Donna

Two Sayings for You

Just two little sayings for today:

"Remember that there is one thing better than making a living---making a life."

"Come over to the sunny side of life. There is room for all and it's a matter of choice." --Barnetta brown

Have a sunny day,
Donna

Today Is Your Day

"Now" is a wonderful word. It is the moment we have. Living in the NOW gives us power since our concentration is in the moment; it is only on today. We are not regretting the past, or worrying about what is to come in the future, which, all too often, we find never comes anyway.

Today is your day-Live it,
Donna

Words of wisdom:

"Today is your day and mine, the only day we have, the day in which we play a part. What our part may signify in the great whole, we may not understand, but we are here to play it, and now is our time. This we know, it is not cynicism. It is for us to express love in terms of helpfulness. This we know, for we have learned from sad experience that any other source of life leads towards decay and waste." ---David Starr Jordan

So live life always in the now, in the today, and joy will be yours."

Only Listen to Good-Not Gossip

There was a writer, Ada Sweet, who had many words of wisdom that it would be wise for all of us to consider. I am going to post one of them for you here today:

"Avoid the personal view, the small view, the critical and fault finding view. Run away from gossip as from a pestilence, and keep in your soul great ideals and ideals to solace solitude. They will drive out petty worries, conceits and thoughts of carking care."

Do run from gossip. You know the old saying: If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck, and sounds like a duck; it's a duck? Well, if it sounds like gossip, looks like gossip, and feels like gossip; it's gossip, and just walk away from it. Only listen to and share good things about one another. With that, you can't go wrong.

Live in happy thoughts,
Donna

Kindness to a Friend

A few days ago I posted that "no man can live to himself alone. There is a poem that ilustrates how kindness should be done as soon as one thinks about it. It was Charles Kingsley who said it so well:

"Friends, in this world of hurry
And work and sudden end,
If a thought comes quick of doing
A kindness to a friend,
Do it that very instant!
Don't put it off-don't wait!
What's the use of doing a kindness
If you do it a day too late!"

Just a Little Thought

Having a lovely Sunday? Just a little thought for your day:

"We are made to radiate the perfume of good cheer and happiness as much as a rose was made to radiate its sweetness to every passerby."

God bless you,
Donna

No Man Lives to Himself

One of the great laws of life is giving. Service for others is essential to our real happiness and to our highest welfare. No man can live to himself alone. We all call this planet home and our lives are all intricately woven together in one way or another. Share yourself and give love to all.

A fine writer, Edwin Markham, once said:

There is destiny that makes us brothers,
None goes his way alone;
All that we send into the livew of others,
Comes back into our own.

I love that little saying because it says so much.

Take care, and God bless,
Donna

Thought for a Sunday

"God has not given us vast learning to solve all the problems, or unfailing wisdom to direct all the wanderings of our brother's lives. What He does give us, to every one of us, is the power to be spiritual, and by our spirituality to lift and enlarge the lives we touch."
Philip Brooks

Saying "Thank You" Means So Much

I noticed when we are traveling that saying thank you to those who wait on us whether it be a service station or a little restaurant, brings a smile to many and a little look of surprise. Standing in line a one establishment, I watched people as they came and went, and "thank you" wasn't heard that often.

We have become a rushed society where often times those little words get forgotten in the course of runing to and fro. And, yet, when they are said, it brings such a look of appreciation in the recipients eyes. It seems so little to mean so much, but it does.

It reminds me of a saying by Stopard A. Brooke:

"There are few things which bless and soothe the life of others more, or do them more good, than saying thank you. It makes men feel that they are of some use in the world, and that is one of the finest impulses to a better life. It cheers many a wearied heart with pleasant hope and bids many a man who is sad in mood take courage."

Have a beautiful day,
Donna

The Greatest Thing Is Love

It is a very rainy day here that makes one want to snuggle up under the blankets and sleep in. However, I have a "date" with my grandchildren which I'm looking forward to.

So I'm going to post a saying from my collection. I hope you enjoy it. Have a lovely day filled with love and cheer.

Donna

"The greatest thing," says some one, "a man can do for His Heavenly Father, is to be kind to some of His other children."

I wonder how it is that we are not all kinder than we are. How much the world needs it! How easily it is done! How instantaneously it acts! How infallibly it is remembered! How superabundatly it pays itself back,--for there is no debtor in the world so honorable, so superbly honorable, as Love. ---Henry Drummond