It's On My Mind

November 20, 2019 (Wednesday)

When I was young my friends and I sang many choruses. Some of them were written with young children in mind, but young people loved to sing them too.

One of my favorites in those days was “Every Day with Jesus.”

Yesterday’s blog asked us to set aside a day to wish people “a bad day.” I don’t know what would motivate a person to want such a thing, but those who know Jesus as their Savior and Lord wish everyone else would come to know Him too. The most wonderful day of my life was the day I opened my heart’s door and invited Jesus to come in. Every day since has been sweeter than the day before. So why not sing about it?

A song with a similar message is “Sweeter As the Days Go By.” I wrote a blog about it back in January. Click here if you would like to see that blog.

November 19, 2019 (Tuesday)

“Have a Bad Day” Day is today…Wha..???

Everybody has a bad day once in a while, but that’s not the meaning of this crazy day.

Believe it or not, Have a Bad Day Day was created to get us to wish people a bad day. The intent is to have sales people stop saying to their customers “have a good day”, and replace it with “have a bad day”. This is truly the meaning and intent of this day, as stated by the creator.

Sorry, I cannot comply with such a stupid idea. So, cliche or not, “Have a nice day.”

You may prefer other sayings. Just the other day, a lady said to me at the checkout stand of the store, “Have a blessed day.” I liked that, although every day can be considered a “blessed” day, if our hearts are in tune with the Lord.

Today’s president is
John Tyler – The 10th President

November 18, 2019 (Monday)

Churches have been criticized by unbelievers as giving too much attention to Heaven and not enough to everyday life. If we examine the record, we will discover that those who do the most for God and others in this life are those who believe strongly in a place called Heaven.

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November 17, 2019 (Sunday)

Jim Hill wrote the words to, “What A Day That Will Be.” Here’s the story.

Jim said that his mother-in-law became very sick. He was a very new Christian at the time. So one day when he was coming home from work, he was asking God why this was happening to his mother-in-law. Then he said, words just starting filling his mind, but he did not have anything on which to write the words down. So when he got home he got out of the car and looked down and there was a old piece of cardboard. He picked it up and wrote down the words to “What A Day That Will Be.” The first person that Jim Hill sang the song for was his sick mother-in-law.

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November 16, 2019 (Saturday)

The writer of the words of this grand old hymn was a friend of the writer of the tune, who was subject to bouts of depression. One day the two of them were together and the musician had his back toward the lyricist, who asked him what was the trouble? Webster replied, “It will be all right by and by.” Instantly, words came to Bennett and he wrote them down and gave them to Webster, who wrote the music all at once. That sudden composition 151 years ago remains among us as a favorite hymn.