you've seen how many people suffer and how
little it takes for you to actually change
their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.
~Wendie Malick
Just got done celebrating Christmas with my kids. What an awesome morning. Christmas music on the television and snow falling outside the window. It was great. I am grateful!
This year has been tough for many of us and for this we can look back and say we endured. We have the strength and faith and knowledge to endure. Life is what you make it and we choose to be happy! Many things to acknowledge and understand that we are in control of our happiness. I am grateful!
This will be perhaps the first time in many years that I will be alone for the holidays. I have shared much with you about my year and one thing that I enjoy with writing I can look back over the year and years and see how I have endured the loss and enjoyed the many things that I have created. I am grateful!
I love being a dad! I love my kids with all my heart as I am sure you all do. There is so much to be happy for when you can shape and mold a young mind and enjoy in their growth. They are great kids and I am so happy to be a part of their daily growth. They enrich me! They fill the home with laughter and joy! They are unique and special and have a wonderful gift of love that they share with me each day. I am grateful!
So the music plays on the jingle bells, the white christmas, the sound of love and the season fills the room. I love it. The sounds of the season, the smiles of joy as the kids opened up the presents. How grand and how expressive. I am grateful!
Abundance, do you have it in your life? You bet you do. If you look around and I mean really look around you have much. You have so much to be grateful for. So very much to share and to reflect upon. So much to do and the year 2012 awaits you. Its coming, it walking into your life are you ready for it?
Are you ready for the challenges 2012 will bring? How ready are you? Have you started your goals and planning to achieve and dream big this year. How ready are you? The year is coming, 2012 with all the smiles to share, kind words to speak, compliments to give. I am grateful!
The affirmation for this week:
I live with an abundant attitude. I appreciate what surrounds me, I see love and possibility in everything that is presented to me. When challenges confront me, I welcome them because I see growth and opportunity. It is a new chance to share in my knowledge of appreciation and love. I am grateful for everything that brings me love and joy. Love surrounds me. Joy flows freely from my spirit. I am grateful! I appreciate and look forward to the new year and I will live in gratitude for all that I have.
93 words this time. The word love used 4 times. Should be used more and that is something we should all work on this new year.
Trust in these words this week, Say them, repeat them and each day watch the shift in your beliefs.
Words with power, with emotion and words that will help affirm your design of a better you.
Use your mirror time and face time each day to acknowledge that you are loved and that you are truly grateful for all that you have.
By your creator, and by the reflection in that mirror. You are loved. Take the time for you! It is within you right now to make your day more joyful, happier, and designed the way you choose. Its your turn to act!
Smiles as always sent your way. Today and always. : )
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On this day in history
1642 – Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand.
1777 – The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the Americans over General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October.
1787 – New Jersey becomes the third state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
1878 – John Kehoe, the last of the Molly Maguires is executed in Pennsylvania.
1898 – Gaston de Chasseloup-Laubat sets the first officially recognized land speed record of 39.245 mph (63.159 km/h) in a Jeantaud electric car.
1900 – The Upper Ferntree Gully to Gembrook Narrow-gauge (2 ft 6 in or 762 mm) Railway (now the Puffing Billy Railway) in Victoria, Australia is opened for traffic.
1912 – The Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is announced by Charles Dawson.
1915 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson marries Edith Bolling Galt Wilson while president of the United States.
1916 – World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of Staff Erich Von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.
1917 – The resolution containing the language of the Eighteenth Amendment to enact Prohibition is passed by the United States Congress.
1932 – The Chicago Bears defeat the Portsmouth Spartans 9-0 in the first ever NFL Championship Game. Because of a blizzard, the game is moved from Wrigley Field to the Chicago Stadium, the field measuring 80 yards (73 m) long.
1944 – World War II: 77 B-29 Superfortress and 200 other aircraft of U.S. Fourteenth Air Force bomb Hankow, China, a Japanese supply base.
1956 – Japan joins the United Nations.
1958 – Project SCORE, the world's first communications satellite, is launched.
1966 – Saturn's moon Epimetheus is discovered by Richard L. Walker.
1969 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom: Home Secretary James Callaghan's motion to make permanent the Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965, which had temporarily suspended capital punishment in England, Wales and Scotland for murder (but not for all crimes) for a period of five years.
1971 – Capitol Reef National Park is established in Utah.
1972 – Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
1978 – Dominica joins the United Nations.
1987 – Larry Wall releases the first version of the Perl programming language.
1989 – The European Community and the Soviet Union sign an agreement on trade and commercial and economic cooperation.
1996 – The Oakland, California school board passes a resolution officially declaring "Ebonics" a language or dialect.
1999 – NASA launches into orbit the Terra platform carrying five Earth Observation instruments, including ASTER, CERES, MISR, MODIS and MOPITT.
2002 – 2003 California recall: Then Governor of California Gray Davis announces that the state would face a record budget deficit of $35 billion, roughly double the figure reported during his reelection campaign one month earlier.
2006 – The first of a series of floods strikes Malaysia. The death toll of all flooding is at least 118, with over 400,000 people displaced.
2006 – United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
2010 – Governmental protests begin in Tunisia, beginning the 2010-2011 Middle East and North Africa protests
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Your Daily Prayer
Lord, thank you for today!
Thanks for the understanding that I have in your word and promises.
Thank you for all the abundance that I have in my life. May I be a better steward of all that I have.
May I share a smile, a sincere smile and perhaps a kind word or deed.
Guide my light to another whose light may be dim.
Help me to live a life by design that I choose not one that is chosen for me.
Guide me and help me to rediscover my inner strength. Help me to focus on love and sharing my love with others.
Help me to focus my strength on making a difference with the simple actions in life.
On keeping things more attainable and filling this time of year with the simple things of life.
Guide me and help me to rediscover my inner strength. Help me to focus on love and sharing my love with others.
Help me to focus my strength on making a difference with the simple actions in life.
On keeping things more attainable and filling this time of year with the simple things of life.
Giving thanks
Showing appreciation
Expressing the real reason for the season.
For the power of words and your words that you placed in the Bible.
Thanks for the gift of love may I understand that everything was designed with love and only man and his wrong intentions created hate.
Help all of us to become better givers of self.
Help us to become the gift that this world needs.
A bit kinder, more gentle, more in tune with the power and influence we really do all have.
To share to be that beacon of light.
To share a simple sincere smile.
To reach out with our hands and arms to help another person get a foot hold once again.
Help me to make a difference with a simple sincere smile, a kind word or even a act of kindness or love.
I give you praise and the glory for all of that
With humility and gratitude I thank you
Amen
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