Socyberty » gratitude http://socyberty.com Fri, 17 Feb 2012 21:45:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Two Compact Words Adjust Anything http://socyberty.com/issues/two-compact-words-adjust-anything/ http://socyberty.com/issues/two-compact-words-adjust-anything/#comments Tue, 24 Jan 2012 10:22:50 +0000 juliajan45 http://socyberty.com/issues/two-compact-words-adjust-anything/ It’s such a compact thing to express ‘thank you’. It is you will nothing but it makes a huge difference to how you are understood and remembered by persons. It’s often the difference which makes the main alteration as to whether persons do what you want, it certainly s90-04a affects the way they do that which you keep these things and, fatefully, how they respond to you – and – if they react to you whatsoever. Many people – if they’re fortunate, for me are taught- from when these were a little kid that ‘thank you’ is exactly what you say as soon as you’re provided a thing or when an individual does something for you – with my case my mothers and fathers used to take one thing back from me till I mentioned ‘thank you’ – therefore it was really quite simple.

To become remembered and recognized in a manner that works best for us, we have to make people really feel appreciated. Properly a simple, useful and purely natural way to make people feel you enjoy them is just to say ‘thank you’ to them extra. When you start looking for how and where you can be more appreciative, much more appreciative for what C90-01A individuals do and are performing, not only for you but who are around you, you’ll discover loads much more opportunities to say ‘thank you’. ‘Thank you for the help’, ‘thanks for telling me that’, ‘thank you for letting me know’, ‘thank you for just getting around’, ‘thank you for considering me’.

Even though you don’t like what you’re getting told attempt saying “ah, thank you for letting me know” or “hmm, thank you for telling me that, ok now what about and so on.”. Thank you first. It means the very first thing you say is not damaging and crucially, it buys you a chance to determine what you do am getting at.

The two words – thank you – are defined within the dictionary as a polite expression used when acknowledging a present, service or compliment or when accepting or refusing an offer’. Saying ‘thank you’ for something that you do not want or don’t want to do is a really key piece in learning how you can say ‘no’ with out upsetting persons. Should you say ‘thanks for asking me and not today’ or ‘thanks for that offer’ before you decide to say ‘no’, you have already started to help the other person accept your refusal without having feeling rejected.

There is a terrific knock-on effect from saying ‘Thank You’ far more. It makes you are feeling far better as well. It’s that whole ‘attitude of gratitude’ and delay pills work. Easy.

By the way, I’m suggesting C90-02A  that you express gratitude extra – not that you don’t say it currently. Start to consider becoming grateful many, whenever you do, instead of just that noticing it, saying it a lot more. Quick.

A lot of people mutter privately ‘well, they’re just undertaking their job’ i.e. why must I say ‘thank you?’ or tell me ‘I am happy with how they did that’ and yet when I ask the individual ‘did you know them you happen to be pleased?’ they invariably the person was both carrying out the things they had been designed to or they simply assumed the individual knew they were pleased.

A customer told me not too long ago that, as a company, whenever a consumer phones her and says ‘thank you’ soon after she’s sorted items out for them, they quickly improve service from her next time they need her support. As she then mentioned ‘everyone loves to be appreciated, we’ve all got a lot going on’ so that as William Arthur Ward, the famous American poet mentioned ‘Feeling gratitude and never expressing it is just like wrapping something special and not giving it.’

]]> http://socyberty.com/issues/two-compact-words-adjust-anything/feed/ 0 Quote of The Day ~ Video of The Day ~ Scripture of The Day ~ on Acceptance :) 01/21/12 http://socyberty.com/lifestyle-choices/quote-of-the-day-video-of-the-day-scripture-of-the-day-on-acceptance-012112/ http://socyberty.com/lifestyle-choices/quote-of-the-day-video-of-the-day-scripture-of-the-day-on-acceptance-012112/#comments Sat, 21 Jan 2012 12:08:13 +0000 makemesmileonline http://socyberty.com/lifestyle-choices/quote-of-the-day-video-of-the-day-scripture-of-the-day-on-acceptance-012112/


One has to accept pain as a condition of existence.

One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing.

One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the

total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.


: o ) Morris West

Life is simple, it really is once you understand the dynamics of the choices we make.  The truth is we have trouble making choices that fit into that simplicity.

We think that there is a better way, we alter the path of success that others have gone before because we want to do it ‘Our Way’.  Not the way of ancient tales, or even of our parents who are not so ancient.  We want to blaze our own trail but yet complain about the results that we produce and have trouble accepting the consequences of doing it ‘Our Way’.

It is too laugh sometimes. LOL.

But in fact we learn to readjust and ponder over the decisions made, reflect, adjust, pray and meditate and correct our misfortunes.  We also need to take the time to speak the gratitude that we still have that opportunity to adjust and that the pain of misfortune is not permanent.

So yes the choice is always ours.

We can make the difference even in our own lives with a smile, some laughter even if the laughter is at ourselves.

That truly may be the best laughter.

Smiles to you this day : )

Video of the day

Spiritual Law of Acceptance?

Scripture of the Day 

“If you do what is right, will you not be accepted? But if you do not do what is right, sin is crouching at your door; it desires to have you, but you must master it.” (NIV)

Genesis 4 : 7


Have a blessed day everyone :)

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‘What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step.’

: o ) C. S. Lewis

First off, all the credit for this post is given to my awesome friend on here Danielle P. thank you for sharing this quote and link if you click on this you will learn how small steps can become large accomplishments.  A great share for today : )

I also share with you a video that I found a few weeks back on You tube.

I share it with you here on the video of the day : )

Video of the day

Powerful Beyond Measure

If you can take the time, and make the time to watch this video daily lets say for a month you will fill the power of you come alive.

Just a thought

Scripture of the Day in Video Form

Jesus > Religion

Have a blessed day everyone :)

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]]> http://socyberty.com/issues/quote-of-the-day-video-of-the-day-scripture-of-the-day-the-power-of-you-and-small-steps-012012/feed/ 0 Quote of The Day ~ Video of The Day ~ Scripture of The Day ~ Shaking It Off :) 01/19/12 http://socyberty.com/issues/quote-of-the-day-video-of-the-day-scripture-of-the-day-shaking-it-off-011912/ http://socyberty.com/issues/quote-of-the-day-video-of-the-day-scripture-of-the-day-shaking-it-off-011912/#comments Thu, 19 Jan 2012 12:56:00 +0000 makemesmileonline http://socyberty.com/issues/quote-of-the-day-video-of-the-day-scripture-of-the-day-shaking-it-off-011912/


“Awake, my soul, and with the sun / Thy daily stage of duty run;


/ Shake off dull sloth, and joyful rise, /


To pay thy morning sacrifice.”

: o ) Thomas Ken

Yes indeed, I could not post yesterday here, had a family matter to take care of and it happens right.

Trips to the hospital ER with my daughter, turns out everything is ok but you have to be careful, just leave it at that.  But if you can keep us in your prayers.  Life is never easy but there are many times when you just have to shake it off.

Oh wow, the theme of this post.

Shake it off!  Three words to practice today and everyday. You will have a wave or a wind come up on you and it just may slow you down. However if you truly can shake it off and move forward with care and patience.  Things will work out for the best.

What is the alternative to Shaking it off?

Dwelling in it?  Paying more attention to the pain instead of the promise.  Shake it off!

Time continues on, you can’t replay the old moment, shake it off and move on to the next.

Smiles and prayers sent to you this day. : )

Video of the day

Shake it off 

Scripture of they day 

And if anyone will not receive you or listen to your words, shake off the dust from your feet when you leave that house or town.

Matthew 10 : 14 ESV


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“It is not the critic who counts;

not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles,

or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,

whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who

strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again;

because there is not effort without error and shortcomings;

but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the

great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a

worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph

of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least

he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be

with those cold and timid souls who

know neither victory nor defeat.”


: o ) Theodore Roosevelt


That is a long quote huh?   But how true.  We will stumble and come up short at times.  Not all the time mind you but life is a series of waves.  Sometimes your riding the wave other times the wave is crashing on in.  Why is that?

Well for one thing the world is full of cause and effect.  What we put out will always have an effect.  Just like what we don’t put out will have an effect or counter effect if we should have done something.  Did you catch that?

Listen to your spirit, if you feel like your supposed to do something and you ignore it well you will have an effect.  The cause was the lack of taking action.

Take time to listen to your energy.  Take time to respond to your calls to action. If it does not work, it does not mean just give up it means rework the plan and find another way.

Smiles to you this day!

Video of the day

Never Stop Taking Action


Scripture of the day 


James 2:18 

 (ESV)

 18 But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works.


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We are born for cooperation, as are the feet, the hands, the

eyelids, and the upper and lower jaws.


: o )Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

(Roman emperor)

Take the time to think on this quote.  Even our eyelids work better with our eyes, the blink and keep them moist, clean and enable us to see better.  Try talking with your jaw closed completely or open completely.

We are designed to work and built to cooperate in this world.

Teamwork.  If you watched any of the football this weekend no one worked alone to win or lose the games.  They worked together.

So why is there so many divorces?

Why do so many families break up and go in opposite directions?

How do we learn our roles when so many people tell us to redefine our roles.

Why do children take their lives at such a startling rate ?

Why don’t we take time out to really understand their challenges and their fears?

Questions that we need to understand the consequences of if we don’t start to address our current way of life.

We are built and designed to work together and not alone.

Last year gave me a lot of challenges.  Challenges I am still working through.  I pray everyday for wisdom and strength to be a better member of this world.  A better father, a better co worker, a better provider, a writer that will be more clear with our mission.

Oh yeah the mission of Make ME Smile Online click here : )

Launched in March of 2009 the words came freely when I wrote that mission statement.  Life was not a struggle for me at that time but maybe it was for many and maybe that was the purpose of this project.

To inspire, to educate to entertain and promote the simple power of the sincere smile.  To promote spoken gratitude and share in recording your life that is worth living in a journal.  To share a laugh or a quote that just may inspire you.  To find a song or a video that can make your day brighter, more enhanced and vivid.

Maybe a video like this one below.  Enjoy your day.  Share a smile. Make a difference, promote happiness and speak your gratitude.

Smiles to you this day and everyday : )

Video of the day (promoting the smile and uplifting a spirit for more information please go to www.urockroadtrip.com)

Sharing Smiles from URock

Scripture of the Day 


“How good and pleasant it is when brothers live together in unity.” 

          Psalm 133:1

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It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of

our daily existence that

we can finally hear the whispers of truth that

life reveals to us, as it

stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.

: o ) K.T. Jong

Ten days into the new year, have you taken the time to reflect on those days. Maybe today is the day to do that.  Take a moment and just ask what have I discovered about myself this year that I have not realized from last year.

I mean we have 355 days to go till this year unwinds.

What have your discovered thus far?

What time have you spend taking the time to be still … and quiet … and maybe even reverent with the life you have lived this far this year.

Ok, stop right now and take that time.

The video of the day is for you … click play and for the next few minutes reflect on what you have discovered this year thus far.

Hit the play button or the link below:

What have you discovered Music to reflect upon 

Did you take the time …. did you ask what have I discovered about me this year?  May your day be blessed as always : )

Scripture of the day : 

1 John 3:18 

…. let us not love with words or tongue but with actions and in truth.


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]]> http://socyberty.com/holidays/quote-of-the-day-video-of-the-day-scripture-of-the-day-what-have-you-discovered-thus-far-011012/feed/ 5 Gratitude http://socyberty.com/philosophy/gratitude-3/ http://socyberty.com/philosophy/gratitude-3/#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 21:12:17 +0000 raelyne12 http://socyberty.com/philosophy/gratitude-3/ Gratitude is free—there is no cost.

Nature’s miracles, such as the flowers in bloom, the leaves when they turn bright colors in the fall, or the sky when
it’s blue, remind us of the simple pleasures in life.
Gratitude changes the way we view life and ourselves. Difficult situations that were once intolerable and seemingly
unchangeable, transform.
The moment we feel gratitude, the situation begins to lighten, and then we can see the opportunities to create
change. We feel better about ourselves and our ability to positively affect our environment and our world.
Depression lifts, conflict turns to harmony, and stress releases to peace.
Have a preventative maintenance program for resignation, cynicism, and doubt.
Every day, more than once, search your mind for all that you have to be grateful for.
The key to a happy, healthy, successful life is gratitude. Gratitude not only heals, it rejuvenates the body. If you doubt
this, just take a look at someone’s face that has been ravaged by years of resentment. They will look drawn and
haggard. Then look at someone who has lived their life in gratitude. They will be radiant with health and aliveness.
You cannot be grateful and unhappy at the same time.
Even the highest and finest of the pleasures of this life are bound to come to an end.
But God is our Eternal Well-Wisher, and when we turn to Him whether in joy or sorrow —with a whispered word of
thanks, we begin to transcend the fluctuations of earthly existence and to anchor our lives in a love that will endure
forever.
Love is the power that heals our lives, and love is the power that will ultimately heal this world.
Gratitude comes from love. It is the natural expression of a loving heart.
Giving thanks and praise spreads healing energy and makes our lives and the world a better place to be and live.
Therefore, whenever we express gratitude, we align ourselves with the power that heals us. It is always our choice
how we want to live our lives.
By choosing to maintain an attitude of gratitude, we are assured of living a happy, healthy, successful life.
When we give thanks for the situations and events in our life that are challenging, knowing that we are being blessed
with wisdom from this experience, the very act of gratitude transforms the negative experience into a positive one.
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]]> http://socyberty.com/philosophy/gratitude-3/feed/ 0 Seven New Year Needs That Can Change All of Us ~ Smiles and Inspiration 2012 ~ Volume Two Issue 31 Day 365 of 365 12/31/11 http://socyberty.com/holidays/seven-new-year-needs-that-can-change-all-of-us-smiles-and-inspiration-2012-volume-two-issue-31-day-365-of-365-123111/ http://socyberty.com/holidays/seven-new-year-needs-that-can-change-all-of-us-smiles-and-inspiration-2012-volume-two-issue-31-day-365-of-365-123111/#comments Sat, 31 Dec 2011 12:43:49 +0000 makemesmileonline http://socyberty.com/holidays/seven-new-year-needs-that-can-change-all-of-us-smiles-and-inspiration-2012-volume-two-issue-31-day-365-of-365-123111/

For some today is the end of the year and hopefully the start of a new beginning.


 For those more fortunate, it’s just another perfect day.


 ~Unknown quotes 

The last day of the year 2011.  So many things happened this year for so many.  It was not a normal year. History books and journals and prayers lifted to heaven will report that.


This is the last day I publish Smiles and Inspiration, a daily essay and devotion on Gather, Red Gage and Triond.  If you want to continue to receive this by email this is the final call for you to send me your email address I will give you 3 months free as my New Years Gift to you.  Send your email address to 


victoryakin@gmail.com and I will add you to the distribution list.  To the other 34 readers that already have…. I thank you!


So this post I wanted to get somethings off my chest, I don’t always do that.  Not on here anyway. I write with the intent to inspire someone for the day.  I write to have just one person feel that they can breathe easier because I have lived.   A quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson ends this way.  Its a quote on ‘Success’ and I will share that often through out the year.  It means that much to me.  It is an awesome way to look at the word that we all chase in life.  Success.


Today I write about 7 New Year Needs that we all can focus on to improve our world and the world of others.  I will expand on them this year in January but for now I want you to just let them sink in.


New Year Need # 1  


Meditate and pray more on how our actions and reactions effect others.  In a more specific way think more before we leap.  Walk slower before we run.  Stop before we continue on the path and be still and listen a bit longer.


New Year Need # 2


Look at our image in the mirror.  Ask the simple question have I smiled at you daily?  Have I laughed with you daily?  Have I told you lately how much your loved?  If you have not smiled or laughed or loved yourself lately, how do you expect others to love you, smile with you or laugh with you?  Smile more at you!  Laugh more with you!  Love more with you!


New Year Need # 3


Dream Big!  Stay Hungry!  Stay Foolish!  Watch Steve Jobs commencement Speech to Stanford each month and trust your instincts.  Listen to them they will teach you what to do, think, feel and how to act accordingly.


New Year Need # 4


Be kind more!  Treat everyday like its Christmas day.  Not in the spirit of commercialism but in the spirit of love.  Be kind more!  Love more!  Share more! Care more!  Everyday should be like Christmas and Thanksgiving!


New Year Need # 5


Stop watching bad news and dwelling on it. Start documenting your good news and creating it!  Read the news on the Internet if you must.  But don’t let the talking heads and shouters overwhelm you.  Spend more time listening and creating good news!  Stop focusing on all the bad.


New Year Need # 6


How healthy do you eat?  How healthy do you sleep?  How healthy do you exercise? How often do you pray and be still and quiet and listen to nature speak to you?  Do it more often, take care of the number one resource you have.  YOU!


New Year Need # 7


Talk with words that will build another up and not tear them down.  Stop with the gossip and words of hate.  We should defend our country and stop policing everyone else.    We must educate our youth like they deserve and not worry about what zip code they live in to fund that education.  Build a defense that will protect and serve us, I ok with that.  But build a mind that will protect and serve the world and we will have power and protection more that we ever have.  


We should have a bake sale for our defense department and allocate billions for our education of young minds.  


Happy New Year Everyone ! Smiles to you this day and everyday ! : )



The new affirmation for the week fits nicely here:   


I am full of love.  I am a creation made to contribute and share that which I am full of.  I choose to share love.  I choose to share a kind word. I choose to share a simple sincere smile today.  Tomorrow I will do the same.  I am a perfect creation.  I have the power within to make a difference.  I choose to do make a difference today.


This week 67 words to inspire and to affirm each day.  Say these words of magic a few times and allow them to flow into your mind and subconscious.  


Watch the power of these words.  The power of I choose.  The power of now and today.


Use these words to make your day and the day of others a bit better.


Smiles as always sent your way.  Today and always. : )


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On this day in history


1687 – The first Huguenots set sail from France to the Cape of Good Hope.

1695 – A window tax is imposed in England, causing many householders to brick up windows to avoid the tax.

1759 – Arthur Guinness signs a 9,000 year lease at £45 per annum and starts brewing Guinness.

1775 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Quebec: British forces repulse an attack by Continental Army General Richard Montgomery.

1790 – Efimeris, the oldest Greek newspaper of which issues have survived till today is published for the first time.

1831 – Gramercy Park is deeded to New York City.

1857 – Queen Victoria chooses Ottawa, Ontario, then a small logging town, as the capital of Canada.

1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln signs an act that admits West Virginia to the Union, thus dividing Virginia in two.

1862 – American Civil War: The Battle of Stones River is fought near Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

1879 – Thomas Edison demonstrates incandescent lighting to the public for the first time, in Menlo Park, New Jersey.

1907 – The first New Year’s Eve celebration is held in Times Square (then known as Longacre Square) in New York, New York.

1909 – Manhattan Bridge opens.


1923 – The chimes of Big Ben are broadcast on radio for the first time by the BBC.

1944 – World War II: Hungary declares war on Nazi Germany.

1946 – President Harry S. Truman officially proclaims the end of hostilities in World War II.

1951 – The Marshall Plan expires after distributing more than US$13.3 billion in foreign aid to rebuild Europe.

1955 – The General Motors Corporation becomes the first U.S. corporation to make over US$1 billion in a year.

1960 – The farthing coin ceases to be legal tender in the United Kingdom.

1983 – The AT&T Bell System is broken up by the United States Government.

1986 – A fire at the Dupont Plaza Hotel in San Juan, Puerto Rico, kills 97 and injures 140.


1991 – All official Soviet Union institutions have ceased operations by this date and the Soviet Union is officially dissolved.

1994 – This date is skipped altogether in Kiribati as the Phoenix Islands and Line Islands change time zones from UTC−11:00 to UTC+13:00 and UTC-10:00 to UTC+14:00, respectively.


1994 – The first Chechen war: Russian army began a New Year’s storm of Grozny

1998– The European Exchange Rate Mechanism freezes the values of the legacy currencies in the Eurozone, and establishes the value of the euro currency.

1999 – Boris Yeltsin, the first president of Russia, resigns as President of Russia, leaving Prime Minister Vladimir Putin as the acting President.

1999 – Five hijackers, who had been holding 155 hostages on an Indian Airlines plane, leave the plane with two Islamic clerics that they had demanded be freed.

1999 – The United States Government hands control of the Panama Canal (as well all the adjacent land to the canal known as the Panama Canal Zone) to Panama. This act complied with the signing of the 1977 Torrijos-Carter Treaties.

2004 – The official opening of Taipei 101, the tallest skyscraper at that time in the world, standing at a height of 509 metres (1,670 ft).


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Your Daily Prayer 



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


Thank you for this year and another day of life and a chance to make a difference


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


Thank you for the gift of family, of love, of understanding.


Bless our families, our friends, those in need of hope and faith may be in some way help to inspire their lives.


May I choose to make a difference in the lives of myself and others. 


May I choose with wisdom and discernement and in your will and instruction.


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


May I give thanks more. 


Show  appreciation more.


Thanks for the gift of love may I understand that everything was designed with love and only man and his wrong intentions created hate.


To share to be that beacon of light.


To share a simple sincere smile.


To understand the true power that I have and may I use it to inspire, shape and mold my life for the betterment of my self and those I love.


To reach out with our hands and arms to help another person get a foot hold once again.


I give you praise and the glory for all of that


With humility and gratitude I thank you


Amen


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The power of man has grown in every sphere, except over himself.


~ Winston Churchill


Power within you.  What power do we wield? More than we use, more than we imagine.  The power to choose, to pray, to rethink something, to act, to shape our own destiny.  


Thats the power you have.  We make choices all the time to take short cuts or the path of the road less traveled.  Sometimes we choose to take the easy road because of the fear that road that has more work will not have any reward that deem the effort.  How sad is that.  We are afraid of even a little reward and we miss out on the fantastic journey.


Visualize your goals and plans this year.


Write them down your wants and make them into needs.


Shape your mind to see yourself accomplishing these needs.


These are no longer new years resolutions this year they are new year needs.


New Year Needs thats the motto and thats the way we need to look at them.


Losing weight is as important as keeping gas in the car to get to work.


Stop smoking is as important as drinking water.


Praying is as important as waking up.


Speaking gratitude is as important as loving your children.


You get the idea?  New Year Needs !


Shape your thoughts and they will shape your actions.


We have the power, all the brain power you need between those two ears.  Use it don’t abuse it and shape your world with love and care and make that difference this year.


For yourself and those you love : )  Enjoy the day everyone!



The new affirmation for the week fits nicely here:   


I am full of love.  I am a creation made to contribute and share that which I am full of.  I choose to share love.  I choose to share a kind word. I choose to share a simple sincere smile today.  Tomorrow I will do the same.  I am a perfect creation.  I have the power within to make a difference.  I choose to do make a difference today.


This week 67 words to inspire and to affirm each day.  Say these words of magic a few times and allow them to flow into your mind and subconscious.  


Watch the power of these words.  The power of I choose.  The power of now and today.


Use these words to make your day and the day of others a bit better.


Smiles as always sent your way.  Today and always. : )


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On this day in history


1066 – Granada massacre: A Muslim mob storms the royal palace in Granada, crucifies Jewish vizier Joseph ibn Naghrela and massacres most of the Jewish population of the city.


1460 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Wakefield.


1816 – The Treaty of St. Louis is proclaimed.


1853 – Gadsden Purchase: The United States buys land from Mexico to facilitate railroad building in the Southwest.


1862 – The USS Monitor sinks off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.


1903 – A fire at the Iroquois Theater in Chicago, Illinois kills 600.


1905 – Former Governor Frank Steunenberg is assassinated near his home in Caldwell, Idaho.


1916 – The last coronation in Hungary is performed for King Charles IV and Queen Zita.


1919 – Lincoln’s Inn in London admits its first female bar student.


1922 – The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics is formed.


1924 – Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies.


1927 – The Ginza Line, the first subway line in Asia, opens in Tokyo, Japan.


1936 – The United Auto Workers union stages its first sit-down strike.


1947 – King Michael of Romania is forced to abdicate by the Soviet Union-backed Communist government of Romania.


1948 – The Cole Porter Broadway musical, Kiss Me, Kate (1,077 performances), opens at the New Century Theatre and becomes the first show to win the Best Musical Tony Award.


1965 – Ferdinand Marcos becomes President of the Philippines.


1972 – Vietnam War: The United States halts heavy bombing of North Vietnam.


1977 – For the second time, Ted Bundy escapes from his cell in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.


1981 – In the 39th game of his 3rd NHL season Wayne Gretzky scores 5 goals giving him 50 on the year setting a new NHL record previously held by Maurice Richard and Mike Bossy who earlier had each scored 50 goals in 50 games.


1993 – Israel and Vatican City establish diplomatic relations.


1996 – In the Indian state of Assam, a passenger train is bombed by Bodo separatists, killing 26.


1996 – Proposed budget cuts by Benjamin Netanyahu spark protests from 250,000 workers who shut down services across Israel.


1997 – In the worst incident in Algeria’s insurgency, the Wilaya of Relizane massacres, 400 people from four villages are killed.


2000 – Rizal Day Bombings: A series of bombs explode in various places in Metro Manila, Philippines within a period of a few hours, killing 22 and injuring about a hundred.


2004 – A fire in the República Cromagnon nightclub in Buenos Aires, Argentina kills 194.


2005 – Tropical Storm Zeta forms in the open Atlantic Ocean, tying the record for the latest tropical cyclone ever to form in the North Atlantic basin.


2006 – Madrid Barajas International Airport is bombed.


2011 – Due to a change of time zone the day is skipped in Samoa and Tokelau.



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Cheesy Ham and Hash Brown 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 the gift of family, of love, of understanding.


Bless our families, our friends, those in need of hope and faith may be in some way help to inspire their lives.


May I choose to make a difference in the lives of myself and others. 


May I choose with wisdom and discernement and in your will and instruction.


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


May I give thanks more. 


Show  appreciation more.


Thanks for the gift of love may I understand that everything was designed with love and only man and his wrong intentions created hate.


To share to be that beacon of light.


To share a simple sincere smile.


To understand the true power that I have and may I use it to inspire, shape and mold my life for the betterment of my self and those I love.


To reach out with our hands and arms to help another person get a foot hold once again.


I give you praise and the glory for all of that


With humility and gratitude I thank you


Amen


*****************************


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 

  


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