Happy New Year 2015

My Happy New Year wish for you
Is for your best year yet,
A year where life is peaceful,
And what you want, you get.

A year in which you cherish
The past year’s memories,
And live your life each new day,
Full of bright expectancies.

I wish for you a holiday
With happiness galore;
And when it’s done, I wish you
Happy New Year, and many more.

By Joanna Fuchs

Be Happy. God Bless.

Allow Yourself

Allow Yourself -by Catherine Pulsifer

Allow yourself to dream,
And when you do dream big

Allow yourself to learn
And when you do learn all you can

Allow yourself to laugh
And when you do share your laughter

Allow yourself to set goals
And when you do reward yourself as you move forward

Allow yourself to be determined
And when you do you will find you will succeed

Allow yourself to believe in yourself
And when you do you will find self confidence

Allow yourself to lend a helping hand
And when you do a hand will help you.

Allow yourself relaxation
And when you do you will find new ideas.

Allow yourself love
And when you do you will find love in return

Allow yourself to be happy
And when you do you will influence others around you.

Allow yourself to be positive
And when you do life will get easier. 

Be Happy. God Bless.

TOUCH SOMEONE’S LIFE

ONE STORMY NIGHT MANY YEARS AGO, AN ELDERLY MAN AND HIS WIFE ENTERED THE LOBBY OF A SMALL HOTEL IN PHILADELPHIA, USA.

TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE RAIN, THE COUPLE APPROACHED THE FRONT DESK HOPING TO GET SOME SHELTER FOR THE NIGHT.

“COULD YOU POSSIBLY GIVE US A ROOM HERE?” – THE HUSBAND ASKED.

THE CLERK, A FRIENDLY MAN WITH A WINNING SMILE, LOOKED AT THE COUPLE AND EXPLAINED THAT THERE WERE THREE CONVENTIONS IN TOWN. 

“ALL OF OUR ROOMS ARE TAKEN,” THE CLERK SAID. “BUT I CAN’T SEND A NICE COUPLE LIKE YOU OUT INTO THE RAIN AT ONE O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING. 

WOULD YOU PERHAPS BE WILLING TO SLEEP IN MY ROOM? IT’S NOT EXACTLY A SUITE, BUT IT WILL BE GOOD ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU FOLKS COMFORTABLE FOR THE NIGHT.”

WHEN THE COUPLE DECLINED, THE YOUNG MAN PRESSED ON. “DON’T WORRY ABOUT ME, I’LL MAKE OUT JUST FINE,” THE CLERK TOLD THEM.

SO THE COUPLE AGREED.

AS HE PAID HIS BILL THE NEXT MORNING, THE ELDERLY MAN SAID TO THE CLERK, “YOU ARE THE KIND OF MANAGER WHO SHOULD BE THE BOSS OF THE BEST HOTEL. 

MAYBE SOMEDAY I’LL BUILD ONE FOR YOU.”

THE CLERK LOOKED AT THEM AND SMILED. THE THREE OF THEM HAD A GOOD LAUGH. 

AS THEY DROVE AWAY, THE ELDERLY COUPLE AGREED THAT THE HELPFUL CLERK WAS INDEED EXCEPTIONAL, AS FINDING PEOPLE WHO ARE BOTH FRIENDLY AND HELPFUL ISN’T EASY.

TWO YEARS PASSED. THE CLERK HAD ALMOST FORGOTTEN THE INCIDENT WHEN HE RECEIVED A LETTER FROM THE OLD MAN. 

IT RECALLED THAT STORMY NIGHT AND ENCLOSED A ROUND-TRIP TICKET TO NEW YORK, ASKING THE YOUNG MAN TO PAY THEM A VISIT.

THE OLD MAN MET HIM IN NEW YORK, AND LED HIM TO THE CORNER OF FIFTH AVENUE AND 34TH STREET. 

HE THEN POINTED TO A GREAT NEW BUILDING THERE, A PALE REDDISH STONE, WITH TURRETS AND WATCHTOWERS THRUSTING UP TO THE SKY.

“THAT,” SAID THE OLDER MAN, “IS THE HOTEL I HAVE JUST BUILT FOR YOU TO MANAGE.”

“YOU MUST BE JOKING.” – THE YOUNG MAN SAID.

“I CAN ASSURE YOU I AM NOT.” – SAID THE OLDER MAN, A SLY SMILE PLAYING AROUND HIS MOUTH.

THE OLDER MAN’S NAME WAS WILLIAM WALDORF-ASTER, AND THAT MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURE WAS THE ORIGINAL WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL. 

THE YOUNG CLERK WHO BECAME ITS FIRST MANAGER WAS GEORGE C. BOLDT. THIS YOUNG CLERK NEVER FORESAW THE TURN OF EVENTS THAT WOULD LEAD HIM TO BECOME THE MANAGER OF ONE OF THE WORLD’S MOST GLAMOROUS HOTELS.

DON’T BE AFRAID TO REACH AND TOUCH SOMEONE’S LIFE, YOU NEVER KNOW WHO’S HEART YOU MAY BE TOUCHING.

                                             WALDORF-ASTORIA HOTEL ORLANDO

Be Happy. God Bless.

Colored Toys

                                         

Colored Toys -Rabindranath Tagore
When I bring to you colored toys, my child, 
I understand why there is such a play of colors on clouds, on water, 
and why flowers are painted in tints 
---when I give colored toys to you, my child. 

When I sing to make you dance 
I truly now why there is music in leaves, 
and why waves send their chorus of voices to the heart of the listening earth 
---when I sing to make you dance. 

When I bring sweet things to your greedy hands 
I know why there is honey in the cup of the flowers 
and why fruits are secretly filled with sweet juice 
---when I bring sweet things to your greedy hands. 

When I kiss your face to make you smile, my darling, 
I surely understand what pleasure streams from the sky in morning light, 
and what delight that is that is which the summer breeze brings to my body 
---when I kiss you to make you smile. 

Be Happy. God Bless.

A Hunch

A hunch is angel talk, and probably should not be ignored.
 Listen to your hunches, pay attention to your intuition, do not dismiss your random thoughts, inspirations or ideas. Heaven talks in snippets, not in speeches. Angels whisper fast. They have to when they're flying around...
 Honor your Hints from Heaven. They could be giving you the best advice you ever had. -Neale Donald Walsch

Be Happy. God Bless.

Response Vs Reaction

At a restaurant, a cockroach suddenly flew from somewhere and sat on a lady. She started screaming out of fear. With a panic stricken face and trembling voice, she started jumping, with both her hands desperately trying to get rid of the cockroach. Her reaction was contagious, as everyone in her group also got pan icky.

The lady finally managed to push the cockroach away but it landed on another lady in the group.
 Now, it was the turn of the other lady in the group to continue the drama.

A waiter rushed forward to their rescue. In the relay of throwing, the cockroach next fell upon the waiter. The waiter stood firm, composed himself and observed the behavior of the cockroach on his shirt. When he was confident enough, he grabbed it with his hand and threw it out of the restaurant.

 Sipping my coffee and watching the amusement, the antenna of my mind picked up a few thoughts and started wondering, was the cockroach responsible for their histrionic behavior?

 If so, then why was the waiter not disturbed? He handled it near to perfection, without any chaos. It is not the cockroach, but the inability of the ladies to handle the disturbance caused by the cockroach that disturbed the ladies.
 I realized that, it is not the shouting of my father or my boss or my wife that disturbs me, but it’s my inability to handle the disturbances caused by their shouting that disturbs me. It’s not the traffic jams on the road that disturbs me, but my inability to handle the disturbance caused by the traffic jam that disturbs me.
More than the problem, it’s my reaction to the problem that creates chaos in my life.

Lessons learnt from the story:
 I understood, I should not react in life. I should always respond. The women reacted, whereas the waiter responded.

 Reactions are always instinctive whereas responses are always well thought of, just and right to save a situation from going out of hands, to avoid cracks in relationship, to avoid taking decisions in anger, anxiety, stress or hurry. Be Happy. God Bless.

You Are Special

Value-A well known speaker started off his seminar by holding up a $20 bill. In the room of 200, he asked, "Who would like this $20 bill?" Hands started going up. He said, "I am going to give this $20 to one of you but first, let me do this." He proceeded to crumple the dollar bill up. He then asked, "Who still wants it?"Still the hands were up in the air. "Well," he replied, "What if I do this?" And he dropped it on the ground and started to grind it into the floor with his shoe.
He picked it up, now all crumpled and dirty. "Now who still wants it?" Still the hands went into the air. "My friends, you have all learned a very valuable lesson. No matter what I did to the money, you still wanted it because it did not decrease in value. It was still worth $20.
Many times in our lives, we are dropped, crumpled, and ground into the dirt by the decisions we make and the circumstances that come our way. We feel as though we are worthless. But no matter what has happened or what will happen, you will never lose your value.
You are special - Don't ever forget it!


Be Happy. God Bless.

Be An Encourager

A group of frogs was traveling through the woods, and two of them fell into a deep pit. All the other frogs gathered around the pit. When they saw how deep the pit was, they told the two frogs that they were as good as dead. The two frogs ignored the comments and tried to jump out of the pit with all of their might. The other frogs kept telling them to stop, that they were as good as dead. Finally, one of the frogs took heed to what the other frogs were saying and gave up. He fell down and died. The other frog continued to jump as hard as he could. Once again, the crowd of frogs yelled at him to stop the pain and just die. He jumped even harder and finally made it out. When he got out, the other frogs said, "Did you not hear us?" The frog explained to them that he was deaf. He thought they were encouraging him the entire time. - Author Unknown

Lessons to be learnt: 1. There is power of life and death in the tongue. An encouraging word to someone who is down can lift them up and help them make it through the day. 2. A destructive word to someone who is down can be what it takes to kill him or her. Be careful of what you say. Speak life to those who cross your path. The power of words.... it is sometimes hard to understand that an encouraging word can go such a long way. Anyone can speak words that tend to rob another of the spirit to continue in difficult times. Special is the individual who will take the time to encourage another.


Be Happy. God Bless.

Start Where You Stand

Start Where You Stand -Berton Braley

Start where you stand and never mind the past,
The past won’t help you in beginning new,
If you have left it all behind at last
Why, that’s enough, you’re done with it, you’re through;
This is another chapter in the book,
This is another race that you have planned,
Don’t give the vanished days a backward look,
Start where you stand.

The world won’t care about your old defeats
If you can start anew and win success;
The future is your time, and time is fleet
And there is much of work and strain and stress;
Forget the buried woes and dead despairs,
Here is a brand-new trial right at hand,
The future is for him who does and dares,
Start where you stand.

Old failures will not halt, old triumphs aid,
Today’s the thing, tomorrow soon will be;
Get in the fight and face it unafraid,
And leave the past to ancient history,
What has been, has been; yesterday is dead
And by it you are neither blessed nor banned;
Take courage, man, be brave and drive ahead,
Start where you stand.’

Be Happy. God Bless.

Abundance Prayer

"From The Light of God that I Am.

From The Love of God that I Am.

From The Power of God that I Am.

From The Heart of God that I Am.

I Decree-

I dwell in the midst of Infinite Abundance. The Abundance of God is my Infinite Source.

The River of Life never stops flowing. It flows through me into lavish expression. Good comes to me through unexpected avenues and God works in a myriad of ways to bless me.

I now open my mind to receive my good. Nothing is too good to be true. Nothing is too wonderful to have happen. With God as my Source, Nothing amazes me.

I am not burdened by thoughts of past or future. One is gone. The other is yet to come.

By the power of my belief, coupled with my purposeful fearless actions and my deep rapport with God, my future is created and my abundance made manifest.

I ask and accept that I am lifted in this and every moment into Higher Truth. My mind is quiet.

From this day forward I give freely and fearlessly into life and Life gives back to me with magnificent increase. Blessings come in expected and unexpected ways. God provides for me in wondrous ways.

I AM indeed grateful. And I let it be so. I wish the same thing for the goodness of all”
  
Sharing this abundance prayer with you all...wishing the shower of abundance and goodness for all.....read the prayer.....visualize with open heart...pray for all.... so that God bless us to live in a world of abundance inside out.



Be Happy. God Bless.

Treasure Every Moment

Imagine there is a bank account that credits your account each morning with $86,400. It carries over no balance from day to day.
Every evening the bank deletes whatever part of the balance you failed to use during the day. What would you do? Draw out every cent, of course?
Each of us has such a bank. It's name is TIME.
Every morning, it credits you with 86,400 seconds.
Every night it writes off as lost, whatever of this you have failed to invest to a good purpose.
It carries over no balance. It allows no over draft. Each day it opens a new account for you. Each night it burns the remains of the day.
If you fail to use the day's deposits, the loss is yours. There is no drawing against "tomorrow."
You must live in the present on today's deposits. Invest it so as to get from it the utmost in health, happiness and success!
The clock is running!! Make the most of today.

To realize the value of ONE YEAR, ask a student who failed a grade.

To realize the value of ONE MONTH, ask a mother who has given birth to a premature baby.

To realize the value of ONE WEEK, ask the editor of a weekly newspaper.

To realize the value of ONE HOUR, ask the lovers who are waiting to meet.

To realize the value of ONE MINUTE, ask a person who just missed a train.

To realize the value of ONE SECOND, ask someone who just avoided an accident.

To realize the value of ONE MILLISECOND, ask the person who won a silver medal at the Olympics.

Treasure every moment that you have! And treasure it more because you shared it with someone special, special enough to spend your time with. And remember time waits for no one.

Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why its called the present....stay blessed and be a blessing to all...may every moment of your be a journey to rich fulfillment and happiness!


Be Happy. God Bless.

Be Colorful

“When you have a rainbow deep down in your heart, your smile will shine bright. You know you're a part of that colorful, magical, feeling you'll find, when you have a rainbow inside.”

 “Look, I really don't want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you're alive, you got to flap your arms and legs, you got to jump around a lot, you got to make a lot of noise, because life is the very opposite of death. And therefore, as I see it, if you're quiet, you're not living. You've got to be noisy, or at least your thoughts should be noisy and colorful and lively.” -Mel Brooks


Be Happy. God Bless.

Red String Of Fate

There is a very famous Chinese saying: "You are thousands of miles apart but you come together because you have YUAN between you. You face each other but you don't know each other because you don't have YUAN between you." Chinese like to say that YUAN is an invisible thread that connects people.

The term "YUAN" is from Buddhism. It's hard to find an equivalent word in English. The closest word to explain it may be FATE. YUAN is one of the most important ideas in Buddhism. It represents the connection, chance and influence between things. That's why people have the idea of invisible thread. YUAN can be good or bad. Buddhists encourage people to study Buddhism, be kind to others, and benefit society in order to start a broad and good YUAN. So when Chinese talk about YUAN, they mean good YUAN.

If you have YUAN, you become a family, friends, classmates, colleagues, and neighbors. You have YUAN with the people who worship at the same temple. You have YUAN with your doctor. You have YUAN with the people who travel in the same train or boat. Some Chinese like to say that a relationship has to be cultivated for at least 500 years before it blossoms. This saying shows their appreciation for the relationship because it is not easy to wait for 500 years.

If a man marries a woman, there must be a red thread, YUAN, connecting them. The invisible red thread also connects the loving parents, wherever they are in the world, with their waiting baby until they become a family.

YUAN is also called YUAN FEN. If a boyfriend and girlfriend break up, if a couple divorces, or if a family member dies young, people would say that the YUAN FEN between them was not enough, or ended. It is wise to let nature take its course if the YUAN FEN ends. Otherwise, one of them or both of them will be hurt. There are some nice stories related with the invisible red thread.

One story is about an old man under the Moon, who puts the red thread between a future husband and wife. Therefore, the matchmaker gets a nickname: "Old Man under the Moon". One old story featuring the red string of fate involves a young boy. Walking home one night, a young boy sees an old man (Yue Xia Lao) standing beneath the moonlight. The man explains to the boy that he is attached to his destined wife by a red thread. Yue Xia Lao shows the boy the young girl who is destined to be his wife. Being young and having no interest in having a wife, the young boy picks up a rock and throws it at the girl, running away. Many years later, when the boy has grown into a young man, his parents arrange a wedding for him. On the night of his wedding, his wife waits for him in their bedroom, with the traditional veil covering her face. Raising it, the man is delighted to find that his wife is one of the great beauties of his village, and he notices she wears an jewel on her eyebrow. Asking her why she wears it – she replies that when she was a young girl, a boy threw a rock and it struck her on the eyebrow and left a scar. The woman is, in fact, the same young girl connected to the man by the red thread shown to him by the old man back in his childhood. They were connected by the red string of fate.
 An invisible red thread connects those who are destined to meet, regardless of time, place, or circumstance. The thread may stretch or tangle, but will never break." --An ancient Chinese belief


Be Happy. God Bless.

Happy Women's Day 2014

“It's definitely difficult being a woman and growing up a girl. When you're graceful, people say you lack personality; when you're serene, people say you're boring; when you're confident, people say you're arrogant; when you're feminine, people say you're too girly; and when you climb trees, people say you're too much of a tomboy! As a woman, you really need to develop a very strong sense of self and the earlier you can do that, the better! You have to be all the things that you are, without allowing other people's ignorance change you! I realized that they don't know what grace is, they can't identify serenity, they have inferiority complexes, they are incapable of being feminine, and they don't know how to climb trees!”
 I want to be able to say, that there are things admirable for a woman to be, at any age! Whether you are four or forty-four or nineteen! It's always wonderful to be elegant, it's always fashionable to have grace, it's always glamorous to be brave ― C. JoyBell C.

 HAPPY WOMEN'S DAY 2014.

A Real Relationship

A relationship is like a house. When a light bulb burns out you do not go and buy a new house, you fix the light bulb.
The best relationship usually begin unexpectedly.
A real relationship has fights, trust, faith, tears, pain, arguments, patience, secrets, jealousy and LOVE!
 A great relationship is about two things, first, find out the similarities, second, respect the differences.
 Relationship is Not about AGE.Not about DISTANCE. The TRUST of Girl to her Real Man, the LOYALTY of Man to his Girl
Be Happy.God Bless.

Angels Are All Around Us

"Believers, look up -- take courage. The angels are nearer than you think." - Billy Graham
 ”Ever felt an angel's breath in the gentle breeze? A teardrop in the falling rain? Hear a whisper amongst the rustle of leaves? Or been kissed by a lone snowflake? Nature is an angel's favorite hiding place.” - Carrie Latet
 ”Angels are all around us, all the time, in the very air we breathe.” - Eileen Elias Freeman
Be Happy.God Bless.

You Can Win

Victory always starts in the head. It's a state of mind. It then spreads with such radiance and such affirmations that destiny can do nothing but obey. - Douchan Gersi

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Be The Best

Be The Best by Douglas Malloch

If you can't be a pine on the top of the hill.
Be a scrub in the valley-but be
The best little scrub by the side of the rill;
Be a bush, if you can't be a tree.
If you can't be a bush, be a bit of the grass.
If you can't be a muskie, then just be a bass-
But the liveliest bass in the lake!
We can't all be captains, we've got to be crew.
There's something for all of us here.
There's big work to do and there's lesser to do
And the task we must do is the near.
If you can't be a highway, then just be a trail,
If you can't be the sun, be a star;
It isn't by the size that you win or you fail-

Be the best of whatever you are!” 

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Be Happy.God Bless.

Start Living

“When I asked him -Mr.Henry Ford- if he ever worried, he replied: "No. I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe that every-thing will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about?”  -Dale Carnegie,
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You Reap What You Sow

Treat people well, and people are likely to treat you well in return. Live out your life with good, positive intentions, and people & life are likely to come back at you in a positive manner. Treat people badly, and well, sooner or later the quality of your life will pay the price. -Stuart Hodgson

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Every Second Beat

Every Second Beat - Mark Liverance

If I had a thousand pages,
I could never name them all,
The reasons that I love you,
For the list would be too tall.

I love you for the melody,
I hear within your voice.
The way your blue eyes hold me,
A captive, but by choice.

I love you for your gentle hands,
That melt away my pain.
I love you for your loving heart,
That made mine beat again.

I love you for your loving smile,
With which my old heart soars.
These are some of the reasons,
Every second beat is yours.

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Be Happy.God Bless.

Shine In Your Own Light/ Be You Part 5

We all have sun and moon, a bright light within but the clouds of self doubts don’t let it shine. In the crowd of darkness we either beg or want to borrow the light from those who themselves are looking for it , all which end up in deep frustration and depression. Sharing with you just few life tips… you may find handy to be happy and help to kindle the inner light shine bright.

1.To light your own way light a candle…..then light another and you will notice nothing is lost when one candle light the next….so what are you waiting for reach out….do good.
2. Be a fountain of happiness and let everyone and everything around you freshen up with your smile.
3. Live and Breathe into the moment….for this very moment is the one you have for sure.
 4. You are the king when you know how to rule yourself.....and also embrace the power of  We...as like you I am too.
 5. When love knocks open the door of your heart... and don't forget to silently bless every soul you pass today and all your coming days.
 6. Play passionately, this whole Universe is a play ground for us to explore discover and have fun….so go enjoy the game called life.
 7. Lit a lamp of kindness and compassion in your heart but make sure that is your strength and don’t let the wrong person play or use it as your weakness.
 8. You are born tough can jump to any height ….decide and jump off.
 9. Let go the burden and baggage’s walk on freely with chin up and head high.
 10. Speak and Act with honesty and let go the out come. BE You.

 The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy. -Henry Ward Beecher. So come shine in your own light brighten up the world. You are the one the whole world is waiting for. Take the stage on fire.

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