Smile

A few years ago as my wife and I were walking out of Circuit City, a woman approached us, "Excuse me you dropped your smile" she said pointing down to the ground. Instinctively we looked down too. The three of us looked up at the same time after a moment with smiles on our faces. She had gotten our attention. She went on to try and sell us something...blah, blah, blah...but I liked the way she got our attention.

Long ago a Christian leader wrote to the new community of followers of Jesus, "Let mutual love continue" (Hebrews 13:1). Commenting on loving one another, Mother Teresa wrote in A Gift for God,

Some people came to Calcutta, and before leaving, they begged me, "Tell us something that will help us to live our lives better." And I said, "Smile at each other; smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other--it doesn't matter who it is--and the will help you to grow up in greater love for each other" And then one of them asked me: "Are you married?" and I said: "Yes, and I find it difficult sometimes to smile at Jesus." And it is true, Jesus can be very demanding also, and it is at those times when he is so demanding that to give him a big smile is very beautiful.

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