MEMORIAL DAY

[Carol Anne Kincaid~Paradis]

GOOD MORNING ...

For You! Happy Memorial Day...Happy Trails..

Is today going to be a good day? Four reasons why today is your best day.

1. Today is your best day because you are here.

2. What happened to you yesterday, however easy or difficult, was used by God to help prepare you for what He has for you today.

3. God will use what happens today to prepare you for what He has for you in future days.

4. God has used your past and worked it all together for the good, and He will use this day to add to the good that He has already worked in your behalf.

So if Today Is the Tomorrow You Worried About Yesterday

Importance of a Smile

Read this short inspirational story about the importance of smile and find out what a smile can do.

Importance of a smileAbout ten years ago when I was an undergraduate in college, I was working as an intern at my University’s Museum of Natural History. One day while working at the cash register in the gift shop, I saw an elderly couple come in with a little girl in a wheelchair. As I looked closer at this girl, I saw that she was kind of perched on her chair.

I then realized she had no arms or legs, just a head, neck and torso. She was wearing a little white dress with red polka dots. As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the cutest, largest smile I have ever seen.

As the couple wheeled her up to me I was looking down at the register. I turned my head toward the girl and gave her a wink. As I took the money from her grandparents, I looked back at the girl, who was giving me the cutest, largest smile I have ever seen.

All of a sudden her handicap was gone and all I saw was this beautiful girl, whose smile just melted me and almost instantly gave me a completely new sense of what life is all about. She took me from a poor, unhappy college student and brought me into her world; a world of smiles, love and warmth.

That was ten years ago. I’m a successful business person now and whenever I get down and think about the troubles of the world, I think about that little girl and the remarkable lesson about life that she taught me.

Unknown Author

Lesson Learned:

A smile can make all the difference in the world

A smile has the power to release stress

A Smile will calm you down

A smile make someone else happy

Have a smiley day

On the second day, Chief Standing Bear was called to testify, becoming the first Native American to do so. He raised his right hand and, through an interpreter, said: “My hand is not the color of yours, but if I pierce it, I shall feel pain. If you pierce your hand, you also feel pain. The blood that will flow from mine will be the same color as yours. The same god made us both. I am a man.”

The judge agreed, ruling for the first time in U.S. history that “the Indian is a ‘person’ ” and has all the rights and freedoms promised in the Constitution.