On Loving Hope ~ Smiles and Inspiration 2012 ~ Volume 2 Issue 05 Day 338 of 365 12/05/11

“When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless.

 But when you get involved, you feel the sense of 

hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you 

are working to make things better.”

~ Author Unknown 

Last night they replayed the movie titled 'Have a little Faith' written by Mitch Albom.  A great movie to watch and learn from.  So much learning in this film and so many lines that inspire as well as teach.

A video with some of these lines place here for you:

Hope is such a strong part of our life.  With out hope we feel lost, overwhelmed and alone.  You have to make effort for hope to come alive.  You have to have some faith that things can and will get better and you have to work towards making it better.

Affirmations that I spoke about yesterday can start the process.  And for you the reader the affirmation for this week:

I am a perfect creation and I have everything I need to obtain my dreams and goals.  I have the time and I will find the time to make a difference today for myself and those I love.  I am able to ask better questions and I will start today.

Say it a few times each day.  In the morning in the mirror, in the car, in the quiet time after prayer and meditation.  Use it for the week and watch and see how the spirit will stir.

We all need to have a little faith.  When things go wrong, and they will we need not look down, but look above the problem and look up.  We need to ask better questions if we want better answers.  We need to listen to our inner self instead of talking over that still soft voice that tries so hard to guide us.

“Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all.”

~ Dale Carnegie

Keep looking up this week.  Stay with the power of prayer. Utilize the gift of laughter.

Smile at it all.  Share that smile. 

Use words that empower you not words that tear away at you.

Stand out in that sea of frowns and never lose hope.  

The gift of hope, its always free.

Smiles sent to you all this day and everyday : )

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On this day in history

1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issues the Summis desiderantes, a papal bull that deputizes Heinrich Kramer and James Sprenger as inquisitors to root out alleged witchcraft in Germany and leads to one of the most oppressive witch hunts in European history.


1492 – Christopher Columbus becomes the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic.


1766 – In London, James Christie holds his first sale.


1775 – At Fort Ticonderoga, Henry Knox begins his historic transport of artillery to Cambridge, Massachusetts.


1776 – At The College of William and Mary, Phi Beta Kappa is founded and becomes the first American College Fraternity.


1831 – Former US President John Quincy Adams takes his seat in the House of Representatives.


1847 – Jefferson Davis is elected to the US senate, his first political post.


1848 – California Gold Rush: In a message before the U.S. Congress, US President James K. Polk confirms that large amounts of gold had been discovered in California.


1876 – Brooklyn Theater Fire kills at least 278 people in Brooklyn, NY.


1920 – Dimitrios Rallis forms a government in Greece.


1932 – German-born Swiss physicist Albert Einstein is granted an American visa.


1933 – Prohibition in the United States ends: Utah becomes the 36th U.S. state to ratify the Twenty-first Amendment to the United States Constitution, thus establishing the required 75% of states needed to enact the amendment (this overturned the 18th Amendment which had made the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcohol illegal in the United States).


1936 – The Soviet Union adopts a new constitution and the Kirghiz Soviet Socialist Republic is established as a full Union Republic of the USSR.


1941 – World War II: In the Battle of Moscow Georgy Zhukov launches a massive Soviet counter-attack against the German army, with the biggest offensive launched against Army Group Centre.


1941 – World War II: Great Britain declares war on Finland, Hungary and Romania.


1943 – World War II: U.S. Army Air Force begins attacking Germany's secret weapons bases in Operation Crossbow.


1945 – Flight 19 is lost in the Bermuda Triangle.


1952 – Great Smog of 1952: A cold fog descends upon London, combining with air pollution and killing at least 12,000 in the weeks and months that follow.


1955 – The American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations merge and form the AFL-CIO.


1955 – E.D. Nixon and Rosa Parks lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott.


1958 – The Preston bypass, the UK's first stretch of motorway, opens to traffic for the first time. It is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.


1964 – Vietnam War: For his heroism in battle earlier in the year, Captain Roger Donlon is awarded the first Medal of Honor of the war.


1974 – In American football, the Birmingham Americans would win what would eventually be the only World Bowl in World Football League history.


1977 – Egypt breaks diplomatic relations with Syria, Libya, Algeria, Iraq and South Yemen. The move is in retaliation for the Declaration of Tripoli against Egypt.


1979 – Sonia Johnson is formally excommunicated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for her outspoken criticism of the church concerning the proposed Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.


2005 – The Lake Tanganyika earthquake causes significant damage, mostly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.


2007 – Westroads Mall massacre: A gunman opens fire with a semi-automatic rifle at an Omaha, Nebraska mall, killing eight people before taking his own life.

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My daily recipe for today.  Hope you enjoy : )  From Recipes.com

Double Banana Bread

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Your Daily Prayer 

Lord, thank you for today!


Thanks for the authority that you have given to man over his thoughts and actions.


Thank you for your promises and words of instruction.


May I use that authority of thought and spoken word for good, to do no harm and to protect my fellow man.


May gratitude always have authority in my life.


Along with love and empathy may I always be able to share hope, and faith with others who may need it this day. 


Help me to make a difference with a simple sincere smile, a kind word or even a act of kindness or love. 


May we become filled with kindness and gratitude that overflows.

I give you praise and the glory for all of that

With humility and gratitude I thank you

Amen

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Power of Affirmations ~ Smiles and Inspiration 2012 ~ Volume 2 Issue 04 Day 337 of 365 12/04/11

“You’ve got to win in your mind before you win in your life.” 

~ John Addison

Are you a winner?   It is just a question what was your first thought that came to that questions.

Does the energy in the world acknowledge your spoken word?  You bet it does and it always will.

What you think and how you think about anything helps in its definition and its design for your experience.

So again are you a winner?   If you answered in your mind that your not or you want to believe you are then your not a winner yet, you just sentenced your actions to some doubt and fear to becoming the winner you want to be.

Your asking the wrong questions like I mentioned yesterday but your also answering the right corrections with a voice of weakness and not strength.  A two headed monster that is leading your in the wrong direction.

The first head of the monster is telling you in question format the follow examples:

Why would you try that?

Do you really think it will make a difference?

Who do you think you are?

Do you even have the time for this?

The second head of the monster is telling you with conviction mind you the answers to these questions.

It never worked before when you tried something.

You won't make a difference ignore the thought.

You struggled in school, you hated school, you are what you have always been.

You won't be able to ou time for this, stay on the couch and watch the news.

Get the idea?  The two headed monster of doubt and belief is giving you affirmations and you just may have been buying into this for years.  

One word here for you:

STOP !

You are a perfect creation.  You have everything you need to obtain your dreams and goals.  

You have the time to make a difference in this day and everyday of your life.

This may be the weekly affirmation for this week.  LOL  You just replace the You with I am.

So without any hesitation on this Sunday the first Sunday in December 2011.

Your first weekly affirmation is laid out here for you : )

I am a perfect creation and I have everything I need to obtain my dreams and goals.  I have the time and I will find the time to make a difference today for myself and those I love.  I am able to ask better questions and I will start today.

Fifty words for this week that I would like you to memorize, speak aloud into the mirror, your car, your walk to work, your private moments alone.  Before you go to sleep and when you awake.

The word 'I' mentioned eight times.  The 'I' in you is the most important think in this exercise.  

You are able to speak better of yourself and that time starts now.

If you truly love you and love yourself as a perfect creation then do this with all your heart and might.

Speak to the world and all its energy those fifty words above and believe that statement with all your heart and spirit.  Then it will come to life.

Smiles sent to you all this day and everyday : )

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On this day in history

1110 – First Crusade: The Crusaders sack Sidon.


1259 – Kings Louis IX of France and Henry III of England agree to the Treaty of Paris, in which Henry renounces his claims to French-controlled territory on continental Europe (including Normandy) in exchange for Louis withdrawing his support for English rebels.


1619 – 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God (this is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).


1674 – Father Jacques Marquette founds a mission on the shores of Lake Michigan to minister to the Illiniwek (the mission would later grow into the city of Chicago, Illinois).


1745 – Charles Edward Stewart's army reaches Derby, its furthest point during the second Jacobite Rising.


1783 – At Fraunces Tavern in New York City, US General George Washington formally bids his officers farewell.


1791 – The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, is published.


1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea – At Waynesboro, Georgia, forces under Union General Judson Kilpatrick prevent troops led by Confederate General Joseph Wheeler from interfering with Union General William T. Sherman's campaign destroying a wide swath of the South on his march to the Atlantic Ocean from Atlanta, Georgia.


1867 – Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange).


1875 – Notorious New York City politician Boss Tweed escapes from prison and flees to Cuba, then Spain.


1881 – The first edition of the Los Angeles Times is published.


1906 – Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc The first intercollegiate Black Greek Letter Organization is founded at Cornell University.


1909 – 1st Grey Cup game is played. The University of Toronto Varsity Blues defeat the Toronto Parkdale Canoe Club 26–6.


1909 – The Montreal Canadiens ice hockey club, the oldest professional hockey franchise in the world, is founded as a charter member of the National Hockey Association.


1918 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for the World War I peace talks in Versailles, becoming the first US president to travel to Europe while in office.


1921 – The first Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury.


1939 – World War II: HMS Nelson is struck by a mine (laid by U-31) off the Scottish coast and is laid up for repairs until August 1940.


1942 – Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Krahelska-Filipowicz set up the Żegota organization.


1943 – World War II: In Yugoslavia, resistance leader Marshal Josip Broz Tito proclaims a provisional democratic Yugoslav government in-exile.


1943 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes down the Works Progress Administration, because of the high levels of wartime employment in the United States.


1945 – By a vote of 65 to 7, the United States Senate approves United States participation in the United Nations (the UN is established on October 24, 1945).


1951 A double-decker bus plows over a marching column of teenage Marine Cadets in Kent, England, killing 24 and injuring an additional 18.


1954 – The first Burger King is opened in Miami, Florida, United States


1958 – Dahomey (present-day Benin) becomes a self-governing country within the French Community.


1967 – Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese forces engage Viet Cong troops in the Mekong Delta.


1969 – Black Panther Party members Fred Hampton and Mark Clark are shot and killed in their sleep during a raid by 14 Chicago police officers.


1971 – The United Nations Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan.


1971 – The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi.


1971 – The Montreux Casino in Switzerland is set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert; the incident would be noted in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water".


1971 – McGurk's Bar bombing: An Ulster Volunteer Force bomb kills 15 civilians and wounds 17 in Belfast, Northern Ireland.


1977 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 653 is hijacked and crashes in Tanjong Kupang, Johor, killing 100.


1978 – Following the murder of Mayor George Moscone, Dianne Feinstein becomes San Francisco, California's first female mayor (she served until January 8, 1988).


1979 – The Hastie fire in Hull, kills three schoolboys and eventually leads police to arrest Bruce George Peter Lee.


1980 – English rock group Led Zeppelin officially disbands, following the death of drummer John Bonham on September 25th.


1981 – South Africa grants independence to the Ciskei "homeland" (not recognized by any government outside South Africa).


1984 – Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers.


1991 – Pan Am goes bankrupt and ceases operations.


1991 – Journalist Terry A. Anderson is released after 7 years in captivity as a hostage in Beirut. He is the last and longest-held American hostage in Lebanon.


1991 – Captain Mark Pyle pilots Clipper Goodwill, a Pan American World Airways Boeing 727-221ADV, to Miami International Airport ending 64 years of Pan Am operations.


1992 – Somali Civil War: President George H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to Somalia in Northeast Africa.


2005 – Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage.


2006 – An adult giant squid is caught on video for the first time by Tsunemi Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km (620 mi) south of Tokyo.


2006 – Six black youths assault a white teenager in Jena, Louisiana, US; the subsequent court case becomes a cause célèbre.







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My daily recipe for today.  Hope you enjoy : )  From AllRecipes.com

Italian Style Meatloaf 

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Your Daily Prayer 

Lord, thank you for today and all the good that is about to unfold.


Thanks for the authority that you have given to man over his thoughts and actions.


Thank you for free will and your promises and words.


May I use that authority of thought and spoken word for good, to do no harm and to protect my fellow man.


May gratitude always have authority in my life.


Along with love and empathy and concern.


May my eyes see that good in everything.


Help me to make a difference with a simple sincere smile, a kind word or even a act of kindness or love. 


May we become filled with kindness and gratitude that overflows.

I give you praise and the glory for all of that

With humility and gratitude I thank you

Amen

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On Learning~ Smiles and Inspiration 2012 ~ Volume 1 Issue 26 Day 329 of 365 11/26/11

The man who views the world at 50 the same way he did at 20

 has wasted 30 years of his life.

~ Muhammad Ali

How true is that?  As we grow older we all learn from our many trips around the sun, don't we?

So why when we go out on black Friday would we spray pepper spray at others just to get the special of the day?  Why?

Why would we do that?  Or why would we trample a store employee and step on and over the very merchandise that we came for just to act like animals let out of a cage?  Why?

Sigh.......

This Black Friday is much safer from home.

So we live and we learn don't we.  Sometimes from our own errors but often in the company of others or from what we read online or in the paper.

But how much we could learn about ourselves if we just took the time each day to write about ourselves.

Take the time to get a journal, a diary a tablet or open up a document on line and just write out your thoughts.

Questions to ask or write about.  Well here is a few

What did I say to myself today that was kind and loving?

What difference did I make in the past 24 hours that changed or had the potential to change another persons life? 

What prayers have I prayed?  What thoughts are important to me right now?

What are my goals for the week, the month, the year?

What am I focusing on lately that is not empowering me but taking away from my ability to grow?

Who do I love?  Who loves me?

What riches do I have that I tend to overlook each day but I would be lost without them?

What can I focus on today that may just improve upon my life more than I can imagine?

Just a few questions there are more and in a few weeks I will share some more.

But take the time to live your life and more importantly take the time to record some of it.

Learn from it and grow from it.

If we are not growing we are indeed dying.  So take the time right now to type out a few thoughts a few dreams and a few goals on how you can grow and not remain in that circle of repetition that can haunt us all.

Smiles sent your way.... Today  and everyday  : )  Enjoy your day everyone : )

  

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On this day in history

1778 – In the Hawaiian Islands, Captain James Cook becomes the first European to visit Maui.


1784 – The Catholic Apostolic Prefecture of the United States established.


1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.


1825 – At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.


1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded.


1863 – President Abraham Lincoln proclaims November 26 as a national Thanksgiving Day, to be celebrated annually on the final Thursday of November (since 1941, on the fourth Thursday).


1909 – Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.


1913 – Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.


1917 – The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.


1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.


1922 – Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between is the first film to do so but it is not widely distributed).


1943 – World War II: HMT Rohna sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.


1944 – World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's shop on New Cross High Street, United Kingdom, killing 168 shoppers.


1944 – World War II: Germany begins V-1 and V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.


1950 – Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.


1965 – In the Hammaguir launch facility in the Sahara Desert, France launches a Diamant-A rocket with its first satellite, Asterix-1 on board, becoming the third country to enter outer space.


1968 – Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire and is later awarded the Medal of Honor.


1970 – In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.


1977 – 'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 pm.


1983 – Brink's-MAT robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-MAT vault at Heathrow Airport.


1986 – Iran-Contra scandal: U.S. President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.


1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.


2003 – Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.


2004 – Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.


2008 – Terrorists attack Mumbai in India and the city is held in siege for 3 days.

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My daily recipe for today.  Hope you enjoy : )  From AllRecipes.com.

Grilled Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich

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Your Daily Prayer 

Lord, thank you for another day of life.

Thanks you for the ability to learn, to seek and to understand not just the world around me but myself.

Help me to be kinder and gentler with myself, and more positive with my words.


May I encourage myself as the year progresses and take time out to learn the power of simple gratitude and kindness to others.

May this day after our day of thanks give reminding me that gratitude for the simple pleasures of life and of memories made are the most significant things to reflect upon.


May I be guided and given the opportunity to share a smile.  Share a kind word and make a difference for another to brighten their day.

May we all take that step to reach out and shine our lift of love, joy and laughter.

Thanks for that love that is given and shared this time of year.  May we take this time to reach out and share our kindess and love that have been given to us.

May we become filled with gratitude that overflows.

I give you praise and the glory for all of that

With humility and gratitude I thank you

Amen

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Daily Information

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Sunrise  

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Next Full Moon

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