JOY TO ME AND YOU ~ Smiles and Inspiration 2012 ~ Volume 2 Issue 23 Day 357 of 365 12/23/11

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable 


to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

~ Lawana Blackwell, 

The Courtship of the Vicar's Daughter

We all grow everyday and unfortunately sorry to say we all inch closer to our final act which is to pass on. Sorry to bring that up but if we are going to inspire each other then we must also learn to face the facts of life and death.

 

I love that song Joy to the World you know the holiday one.

Joy to the world; The Lord is come!

Let earth receive her King.  

Let every heart prepare him room.

And Saints and Angels Sing!

That song if you want the rest of the lyrics just click on this line and you will be taken there.  Just come back to this page. : )

Awesome Christmas Song!  

So understand that we are the earth, you and me.   So we have either chosen to receive his gift and love or we have not received it.  Let every heart prepare him room.  Is he in your heart?  Have you made him some room in there?

May the Saints and Angels Sing!  Great line : )

So we have that joy in our heart you and me, lets say that we both do, you the reader and me the author in charge of this essay.  I will confirm right here that I do.  I accepted that king into my heart at the age of  15 in an old country church here near my home.  I have that room for him in my heart.  Love that peace and joy and hope that my love shines and is a beacon to another.

So that joy resides in us, we want to share it but often find we are rejected.  Does that mean we let the other person effect our joy?  No, but sometimes we let that happen.  Don't let that happen.  Let your joy sing out, let your smile broaden.  Let your laughter ring out.  If you let those emotions flow freely they will get it.  They will ultimately want what your have.  It will start to grow on their spirit like moss grows on a tree, or rain clings on a window pane.  Sure it may fade once you move on but it will linger.

Thats truly what we want from our joy anyway to linger.  Let the energy flow of the world do the rest.

You make the deposit of joy, or you plant the seed and move forward.  Flow freely and let your joy become part of the energy flow around you.

Don't let another drop your joy or smile.  Don't allow the wonders of the evening news to cause you despair.  No not even the weather should bring you down.  For we all need the rain, and the snow and the dark clouds.  Because after the rain and the dark clouds will come the light of the sun.

The light of the Son!  May the Saints and Angels Sing ! !  : )

This weeks affirmation fits right here :

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.

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

1688 – As part of the Glorious Revolution, King James II of England flees England to Paris after being deposed in favor of his nephew, William of Orange and his daughter Mary.

1783 – George Washington resigns as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army at the Maryland State House in Annapolis, Maryland.

1823 – A Visit from St. Nicholas, also known as The Night Before Christmas, is published anonymously.

1893 – The opera Hänsel und Gretel by Engelbert Humperdinck is first performed.

1913 – The Federal Reserve Act is signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson, creating the Federal Reserve.

1914 – World War I: Australian and New Zealand troops arrive in Cairo, Egypt.

1916 – World War I: Battle of Magdhaba – Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula.

1919 – Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 becomes law in the UK.

1937 – First flight of the Vickers Wellington bomber.

1938 – Discovery of the first modern coelacanth in South Africa.

1940 – World War II: Greek submarine Papanikolis (Υ-2) sinks the Italian motor ship Antonietta.

1941 – World War II: After 15 days of fighting, the Japanese Imperial Army occupies Wake Island.

1947 – The transistor is first demonstrated at Bell Laboratories.

1948 – Seven Japanese convicted of war crimes by the International Military Tribunal for the Far East are executed at Sugamo Prison in Tokyo.

1958 – Dedication of Tokyo Tower, the world's highest self-supporting iron tower.

1968 – The 82 sailors from the USS Pueblo are released after eleven months of internment in North Korea.

1970 – The North Tower of the World Trade Center in Manhattan, New York City is topped out at 1,368 feet (417 m), making it the tallest building in the world.

1972 – A 6.5 magnitude earthquake strikes the Nicaraguan capital of Managua killing more than 10,000.

1972 – The 16 survivors of the Andes flight disaster are rescued after 73 days, having survived by cannibalism.

1979 – Soviet war in Afghanistan: Soviet forces occupy Kabul, the Afghan capital.

1982 – The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces it has identified dangerous levels of dioxin in the soil of Times Beach, Missouri.

1986 – Voyager, piloted by Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, lands at Edwards Air Force Base in California becoming the first aircraft to fly non-stop around the world without aerial or ground refueling.

1990 – History of Slovenia: In a referendum, 88% of Slovenia's population vote for independence from Yugoslavia.

2002 – A MQ-1 Predator is shot down by an Iraqi MiG-25, making it the first time in history that an aircraft and an unmanned drone had engaged in combat.

2003 – Petro China Chuandongbei natural gas field explosion, Guoqiao, Kai County, Chongqing, China, killing at least 234.

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Apple Pie Ham

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Your Daily Prayer 

Lord, thank you for today and all its majesty and beauty.

Thanks for the gift of our free will may we all choose wisely.

Thank you for all the abundance that I have in my life.  

Help me to understand all the possibilities that come along with this abundance.


May I seek to explore and surround myself and allow it to flow freely from me.

May I stand out among the crowd and give freely the love that burns inside my spirit.


Help my free flowing spirit to feel your presence, your spirit, your love, your direction.


Help me to look forward and move forward with faith, hope, love and grace.

May I share a smile, a sincere smile and perhaps a kind word or deed.


Allow my faith and light to always burn bright.  Never let that joy alter because of another spirit.

Guide my light to another whose light may be dim.  May my joy and smile brighten their day.

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.

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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Looking Forward ~ Smiles and Inspiration 2012 ~ Volume 2 Issue 22 Day 356 of 365 12/22/11

Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes.


 Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. 


Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.

~ Lao Tzu

Time moves forward, it does not stop, will not pause for anyone.  In boredom we cling to the notion that time drags, stands still, but yet the second in life is the same for you when excitement reigns or boredom drags.

We move forward and our actions dictate how proficient and how successful we do in alignment with our goals and our values  We move forward, in time and space we move forward.

Are you moving in the direction you choose?  Are you moving forward towards your values and goals.

Today in your meditation and your prayers ask for guidance and wisdom to move forward with our creators blessing, with our energy flowing with nature and not against it.

Our energy, your energy is it a positive one.  Free of hate, of bigotry, of anger and of any fear.

We were not created for any of these emotions.  They are emotions that exist from time to time and for some they exist everyday in large quantities.  But we choose them.  We choose how we look forward and move forward.

This season of giving and love happens this time of year every year.  However we could choose to look forward and live this season on a daily basis.  We could choose to live with energy filled with love and joy.  With giving and empathy.  With faith and hope.  But hope with out action and thoughtful direction is a hope that only waits for another to make things happen.  We must empower our energy to live a life of thoughts of inspiration and resolve.  Actions with purpose to make things better for self and others.  

We choose.  We  choose.  We guide and we direct.  We look forward.  We move forward. May we all move forward and look forward with love and connection for self and others.

This weeks affirmation fits right here :

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.

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

1769 – Sino-Burmese War (1765–1769) ends with an uneasy truce.

1790 – The Turkish fortress of Izmail is stormed and captured by Suvorov and his Russian armies.

1807 – The Embargo Act, forbidding trade with all foreign countries, is passed by the U.S. Congress, at the urging of President Thomas Jefferson.

1808 – Ludwig van Beethoven conducts and performs in concert at the Theater an der Wien, Vienna, with the premiere of his Fifth Symphony, Sixth Symphony, Fourth Piano Concerto (performed by Beethoven himself) and Choral Fantasy (with Beethoven at the piano).

1809 – The Non-Intercourse Act, lifting the Embargo Act except for the United Kingdom and France, is passed by the U.S. Congress.

1851 – The first freight train is operated in Roorkee, India.

1864 – Savannah, Georgia falls to General William Tecumseh Sherman, concluding his "March to the Sea".

1885 – Ito Hirobumi, a samurai, became the first Prime Minister of Japan

1890 – Cornwallis Valley Railway begins operation between Kingsport and Kentville, Nova Scotia.

1937 – The Lincoln Tunnel opens to traffic in New York City.

1940 – World War II: Himarë is captured by the Greek army.

1942 – World War II: Adolf Hitler signs the order to develop the V-2 rocket as a weapon.

1944 – World War II: Battle of the Bulge – German troops demand the surrender of United States 

troops at Bastogne, Belgium, prompting the famous one word reply by General Anthony McAuliffe: "Nuts!"

1944 – World War II: The People's Army of Vietnam is formed to resist Japanese occupation of Indo-China, now Vietnam.

1956 – Colo is born, the first gorilla to be bred in captivity.

1963 – The cruise ship Lakonia burns 180 miles (290 km) north of Madeira with the loss of 128 lives.

1964 – First flight of the SR-71 (Blackbird).

1965 – In the United Kingdom, a 70 mph speed limit is applied to all rural roads including motorways for the first time. Previously, there had been no speed limit.

1974 – Grande Comore, Anjouan and Mohéli vote to become the independent nation of Comoros. Mayotte remains under French administration.

1974 – The house of former British Prime Minister Ted Heath is attacked by members of the Provisional IRA.

1984 – Bernhard Hugo Goetz shoots four African-American would-be muggers on an express train in Manhattan, New York City.

1988 – Chico Mendes, a Brazilian rubber tapper, unionist and environmental activist, is assassinated.

1989 – After a week of bloody demonstrations, Ion Iliescu takes over as president of Romania, ending Nicolae Ceauşescu's Communist authoritarian regime.

1989 – Berlin's Brandenburg Gate re-opens after nearly 30 years, effectively ending the division of East and West Germany.

1990 – The Parliament of Croatia adopts the current Constitution of Croatia.

1992 – The Archives of Terror are discovered.

1997 – Acteal massacre: Attendees at a prayer meeting of Roman Catholic activists for indigenous causes in the small village of Acteal in the Mexican state of Chiapas are massacred by paramilitary forces.

1997 – Hussein Aidid relinquishes the disputed title of President of Somalia by signing the Cairo Declaration, in Cairo, Egypt. It is the first major step towards reconciliation in Somalia since 1991.

1998 – Hurricane Quinto strikes the Cayman Islands, knocking out power to the entire island for 2 days. Looting is rampant, but contained after 12 hours.

1999 – Korean Air Cargo Flight 8509, a Boeing 747-200F crashes shortly after take-off from London Stansted Airport due to pilot error. All 4 crew members are killed.

2001 – Burhanuddin Rabbani, political leader of the Afghan Northern Alliance, hands over power in Afghanistan to the interim government headed by President Hamid Karzai.

2001 – Richard Reid attempts to destroy a passenger airliner by igniting explosives hidden in his shoes aboard American Airlines Flight 63.

2008 – An ash dike ruptured at a solid waste containment area in Roane County, Tennessee, releasing 1.1 billion US gallons (4,200,000 m3) of coal fly ash slurry.

2010 – The repeal of the Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, the 17-year-old policy banning on homosexuals serving openly in the United States military, is signed into law by President Barack Obama.

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

Amish Breakfast Casserole

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Your Daily Prayer 

Lord, thank you for today and all its majesty and beauty.

Thanks for the gift of our free will may we all choose wisely.

Thank you for all the abundance that I have in my life.  

Help me to understand all the possibilities that come along with this abundance.


May I seek to explore and surround myself and allow it to flow freely from me.

May I stand out among the crowd and give freely the love that burns inside my spirit.


Help my free flowing spirit to feel your presence, your spirit, your love, your direction.


Help me to look forward and move forward with faith, hope, love and grace.

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.

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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Daily Information

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Sunrise  

Sunset

Next Full Moon

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What Surrounds You ? ~ Smiles and Inspiration 2012 ~ Volume 2 Issue 21 Day 355 of 365 12/21/11

For most people, we often marvel at the beauty of a sunrise or 


the magnificence of a full moon, but


 it is impossible to fathom the magnitude of the universe that surrounds us.

~ Richard H. Baker

Perhaps we should start to try and fathom the beauty all through out our world.

Not the world our world.  Yes there is plenty beauty.

Common people who the media calls 'layaway angels' that pay off layaways for folks and turn their Christmas and faith in man kind to a higher plane.

The person in the driveway of a Starbucks who pays for the drink behind him and only hopes that the person pays it forward, or backward as is this case and does the same.  Then that person does, and the next and the next for an entire hour.  

Thats the beauty that surrounds us.  Fact is it is in every one of us.

So what surrounds you?  Before you answer that question take a second, meditate on the question, maybe a full minute or two.

What surrounds you?

No matter what you answered the same thing that surrounds each of us is there for you too.

Things like beauty, majestic sunrises and sunsets, resources that allow us to live, nature that lives in harmony.

Emotions like love, joy, happiness, laughter, empathy, intense euphoria, peace, kindness.

They surround you as much as they surround me.

So lets focus on these things.  Lets call them into our world, our perception, our focus today.

Tomorrow and the next day.  Don't stop at just one day.

Tis the season to be jolly right? 

Then live with that spirit in your soul.  Look at the beauty.

Do we all get down at times. Sure we do.  But it is how we bounce back, and how soon we bounce back that matters most.

We are all creatures of love.

We are all focused on something make that something that is worth your attention be that love, joy, kindness and goodness that can and should surround us all.

This weeks affirmation fits right here :

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.

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

1620 – Plymouth Colony: William Bradford and the Mayflower Pilgrims land on what is now known as Plymouth Rock in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

1826 – American settlers in Nacogdoches, Mexican Texas, declare their independence, starting the Fredonian Rebellion.

1861 – Medal of Honor: Public Resolution 82, containing a provision for a Navy Medal of Valor, is signed into law by President Abraham Lincoln.

1872 – Challenger expedition: HMS Challenger, commanded by Captain George Nares, sails from Portsmouth.

1883 – The first Permanent Force cavalry and infantry regiments of the Canadian Army are formed: The Royal Canadian Dragoons and The Royal Canadian Regiment.

1907 – The Chilean Army commits a massacre of at least 2,000 striking saltpeter miners in in Iquique, Chile.

1910 – An underground explosion at the Hulton Bank Colliery No. 3 Pit in Over Hulton, Westhoughton, England, kills 344 miners.

1913 – Arthur Wynne's "word-cross", the first crossword puzzle, is published in the New York World.

1937 – Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the world's first full-length animated feature, premieres at the Carthay Circle Theater.

1941 – World War II: A formal treaty of alliance between Thailand and Japan is signed in the presence of the Emerald Buddha in Wat Phra Kaew.

1946 – An 8.1 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami in Nankaidō, Japan, kill over 1,300 people and destroy over 38,000 homes.

1962 – Rondane National Park is established as Norway's first national park.

1967 – Louis Washkansky, the first man to undergo a heart transplant, dies in Cape Town, South Africa, after living for 18 days after the transplant.

1968 – Apollo program: Apollo 8 launched from the Kennedy Space Center, placing its crew on a lunar trajectory for the first visit to another celestial body by humans.

1969 – The Gay Activists Alliance is formed in New York City.

1969 – The United Nations adopts the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.

1973 – The Geneva Conference on the Arab-Israeli conflict opens.

1988 – A bomb explodes on board Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland, killing 270.

1992 – A Dutch DC-10, flight Martinair MP 495, crashes at Faro Airport, killing 56 people.

1994 – Mexican volcano Popocatepetl, dormant for 47 years, erupts gases and ash.

1995 – The city of Bethlehem passes from Israeli to Palestinian control.

1999 – The Spanish Civil Guard intercepts a van loaded with 950 kg of explosives that ETA intended to use to blow up Torre Picasso in Madrid.

2004 – Iraq War: A suicide bomber killed 22 at the forward operating base next to the main U.S. military airfield at Mosul, the single deadliest suicide attack on American soldiers.

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

Ruth's Grandma's Pie Crust

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Your Daily Prayer 

Lord, thank you for today and all its majesty and beauty.

Thanks for the gift of our free will may we all choose wisely.

Thank you for all the abundance that I have in my life.  

Help me to understand all the possibilities that come along with this abundance.


May I seek to explore and surround myself and allow it to flow freely from me.

May I stand out among the crowd and give freely the love that burns inside my spirit.


Help my free flowing spirit to feel your presence, your spirit, your love, your direction.

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.

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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Daily Information

A very cool time piece for the web

Sunrise  

Sunset

Next Full Moon

Days till Spring 

Sharing a smile ~  Sending you love ~  Pass it on

: )

brought to you by Make ME Smile Online

written by Victor Yakin copyright protected 2011