Blessing notebook brightens day
By MARCELLA BRUCE
Contributing writer
More than 10 years ago our family met in Russellville, Ark., to celebrate my husband Bud's 80th birthday. In addition to our son and daughter and their spouses, we were so thrilled to have our niece Ardis Jane and her husband Pat join us.
Ardis Jane was the daughter of Bud's sister who died two weeks after her baby daughter was born. Ardis Jane had grown to be a lovely young woman and she and Pat had four great kids, two of them served in the foreign mission fields. We had brought with us, tied on the back of our car, Ardis Jane's mother's cedar chest with meaningful momentos that she had never seen. As you can imagine, it was truly a happy time.
As a special remembrance from that trip, Janie gave me a beautiful little spiral notebook filled with "Blessings" for each and every day. It sits on my kitchen counter and as I have for these past years, each day I turn a page to find a verse, saying, or poem that brightens my day.
For example: "All people smile in the same language."
"A happy heart makes the face cheerful." Proverbs 15:13.
"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody — it saves so much trouble." — Rudyard Kipling
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What more can we ask of October than we've already had? The hints of fall and gentle rains with a forecast of more to come.
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Our Marcia and Glenn in Angel Fire, N.M., have already had their first snow.
It's all right with me if we wait awhile here in Hillsboro!
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At last week's chamber of commerce meeting Mayor Delores Dalke and city administrator Steve Garrett handed out lists of possible city projects to members and asked them to respond. On a second page, members were also asked to respond to: "The one change I would like to see in Hillsboro is
On the same page this query appeared: "Our current population is approximately 3,000. What would you like to see the population of the City of Hillsboro be in 2020?"
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I don't know about you but every time I drive down our Main Street (including Grand) I'm impressed with its outstanding attractiveness!
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Sinclair Lewis said it: "Winter is not a season, it's an occupation."
Surely not in Kansas except on rare occasions.
