Thursdays Present

Good Morning Friends.

Thursday has arrived; I hope this email finds you well rested. healthy and in good spirits for the day. Let the drama from yesterday fall from your shoulders and realize that Today is a New Day. Each day we decide what the day is going to be like when we rise to greet it, letting thoughts of the past or future change you’re day is a mistake. We must realize that we have to focus on the present moment to make the most of this LIFE!

"The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results."

~ Norman Vincent Peale

"It takes but one positive thought when given a chance to survive and thrive to overpower an entire army of negative thoughts." ~Robert H Schuller

Black or White

When I was in elementary school, I got into a major argument with a boy in my class. I have forgotten what the argument was about, but I have never forgotten the lesson I learned that day.

I was convinced that “I” was right and “he” was wrong – and he was just as convinced that “I” was wrong and “he” was right. The teacher decided to teach us a very important lesson.

She brought us up to the front of the class and placed him on one side of her desk and me on the other. In the middle of her desk was a large, round object. I could clearly see that it was black. She asked the boy what color the object was. “White,” he answered.

I couldn’t believe he said the object was white, when it was obviously black! Another argument started between my classmate and me, this time about the color of the object.

The teacher told me to go stand where the boy was standing and told him to come stand where I had been. We changed places, and now she asked me what the color of the object was. I had to answer, “White.”

It was an object with two differently colored sides, and from his viewpoint it was white. Only from my side it was black.

Sometimes we need to look at the problem from the other person’s view in order to truly understand his/her perspective.

Author Unknown

Today's attempt at humor.........

Juggling A Ticket

An Alexander County Deputy pulled a car over on I-57 about

2 miles north of the Missouri state line. When the Deputy asked

the driver why he was speeding, the driver answered that he was

a magician and a juggler and he was on his way to Branson to do

a show that night and didn't want to be late.

The deputy told the driver he was fascinated by juggling, and

if the driver would do a little juggling for him that he wouldn't give

him a ticket.

The driver told the deputy that he had sent all of his equipment

on ahead and didn't have anything to juggle. The deputy told him

that he had some flares in the trunk of his squad car and asked

if he could juggle them. The juggler stated that he could, so the

deputy got three flares, lit them and handed them to the juggler.

While the man was doing his juggling act, a car pulled in behind

the squad car, a drunk got out and watched the performance briefly,

he then went over to the squad car, opened the rear door and got in.

The deputy observed him doing this and went over to his squad car,

opened the door and asked the drunk what he thought he was doing.

The drunk replied, "Might as well take myself to jail, there's no way

I can pass that test."

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