Ray’s Daily
March 6, 2018
Each day is new and ready for you to live it fully.
Yesterday while my wife and me were having coffee with a couple of friends an acquaintance stopped by our table to tell us what a bad week he had last week. He had water in the house requiring a new toilet, he found that he needed a new water softener and then he learned he needed furnace repairs. Yep, a really bad week. All I said was at least he could look forward to better days this week,
I have often thought that my wife’s and my serious illnesses’ have made us appreciate our days free of sickness or setbacks so much more. All of us would do better if we appreciated even our lackluster days as being special.
Here is a piece written by Ralph Marston sometime ago that we all should appreciate.
One glorious morning
Yesterday’s dark clouds make this morning’s sunshine brighter. Tomorrow, you’ll look back at today’s challenges with gratitude for having worked through them.
Suffering through a season of illness and pain will give you great appreciation for good health when it returns. The burdens of the present build new strength in you for the future.
If there had never been any darkness, light would be meaningless. You cannot fully experience how good life can be unless you’ve also known its difficulties.
Stand resolute when the hard times come, and take heart. Your experiences now are making the good times richer.
Yes, one glorious morning after the storm has passed, the sun will rise. As it warms your face, you’ll feel a newfound sense of determination and positive purpose.
Carry on, push forward through whatever may come. You’ll emerge from it better than you’ve ever been.
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Each day I give thanks for you and appreciate all that you do.
Catherine Pulsifer
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Things a Redneck Would Never Say…
“I’ll take Shakespeare for 1000, Alex”
Duct tape won’t fix that.
Come to think of it, I’ll have a Heineken.
Honey, did you mail that donation to Greenpeace?
We’re vegetarians.
Honey, do these bonsai trees need watering?
Who’s Richard Petty?
Trim the fat off that steak.
Cappuccino tastes better than espresso.
The tires on that truck are too big.
I’ll have the arugula and radicchio salad.
Would you like your fish poached or broiled?
Little Debbie snack cakes have too many fat grams.
Checkmate.
She’s too old to be wearing a bikini.
Be sure to bring my salad dressing on the side.
Those shorts ought to be a little bit longer, Darla.
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“Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.”
Cullen Hightower
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Two blondes landed at the airport and caught a cab.
“Where are you off to,” asked the cabbie.
“San Josie,” one replied.
The cabbie corrected her pronunciation telling her that the “J” made an “H” sound.
As time went by he asked how long they would be vacationing.
The one blonde replied, “For all of Hune and Huly.”
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“By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he’s too old to go anywhere.”
Billy Crystal
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A husband and his wife advertised for a live-in maid to cook and do the housework. They hired a lovely lass for the job.
She worked out fine, was a good cook, was polite, and kept the house neat. One day, after about six months, she came in and said she would have to quite.
“But why?” asked the disappointed wife.
She hemmed and hawed and said she didn’t want to say, but the wife was persistent, so finally she said, “Well on my day off a couple of months ago I met this good-looking fellow from over in the next county, and well, I’m pregnant.”
The wife said, “Look, we don’t want to lose you. My husband and I don’t have children, and we’ll adopt your baby if you will stay.”
She talked to her husband; he agreed, and the maid said she would stay. The baby came, they adopted it, and all went well.
After several months though, the maid came in again and said that she would have to quit. The wife questioned her, found out that she was pregnant again, talked to her husband, and offered to adopt the baby if she would stay. She agreed, had the baby, they adopted it, and life went on as usual.
In a few months, however, she again said she would have to leave. Same thing. She was pregnant. They made the same offer, she agreed, and they adopted the third baby. She worked for a week or two, but then said, “I am definitely leaving this time.”
“Don’t tell me you’re pregnant again?” asked the lady of the house.
“No,” she said, “I just can’t handle all these damned kids.”
~~~
Seen on a sign in a fish market window…
We serve shrimps, a few crabs, tall people, and a lot of nice people too!
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In the historic first manned mission to Mars, two Astronauts were charting the Martian surface.
“Look at that,” said one to the other, “how beautiful this alien landscape is, untouched by man.”
At that point, he was cut off, as he found his radio communications knocked out by unknown interference. Using an emissions detector, they followed the source of the interference until they reached the rim of a crater. “Do you see what the source of that noise is?” asked the first astronaut.
“I don’t know,” said the second, “but it might be coming from that Starbucks behind you.”
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“The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible.”
George Burns
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Upon arriving home, a husband was met at the door by his sobbing wife. Tearfully she explained, “It’s the druggist. He insulted me terribly this morning on the phone. I had to call multiple times before he would even answer the phone.”
Immediately, the husband drove downtown to confront the druggist and demand an apology. Before he could say more than a word or two, the druggist told him, “Now, just a minute, listen to my side of it. This morning the alarm failed to go off, so I was late getting up. I went without breakfast and hurried out to the car, just to realize that I had locked the house with both house and car keys inside and had to break a window to get my keys. Then, driving a little too fast, I got a speeding ticket. Later, when I was about three blocks from the store, I had a flat tire. When I finally got to the store a bunch of people were waiting for me to open up. I got the store opened and started waiting on these people, and all the time the darn phone was ringing off the hook.
“Then I had to break a roll of nickels against the cash register drawer to make change, and they spilled allover the floor. I had to get down on my hands and knees to pick up the nickels and the phone was still ringing. When I came up I cracked my head on the open cash drawer, which made me stagger back against a showcase with a bunch of perfume bottles on it. Half of them hit the floor and broke. Meanwhile, the phone is still ringing with no let up, and I finally got back to answer it. It was your wife. She wanted to know how to use a rectal thermometer.
“And believe me mister, as God is my witness, all I did was tell her.”
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Look for something positive in each day, even if some days you have to look a little harder. Let the challenges make you strong.
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Ray Mitchell
Indianapolis, Indiana
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