Most people feel intuitively that the simplest things in life are the most important, or, if you prefer, that the most important things in life are found to be the simplest. This is a very profound discovery. What is more important to us than breathing, for instance?
Another simple thing that is of great moment is a smile. A smile affects your whole body from the skin right in to the skeleton, including all blood vessels, nerves, and muscles. It affects the functioning of every organ. It influences every gland. Even one smile often relaxes a number of muscles, and when the thing becomes a habit you can easily see how the effect will mount up. Last year’s smiles are paying you dividends today.
The effect of a smile on other people is no less remarkable. It disarms suspicion, melts away fear and anger, and brings forth the best in the other person – which best he immediately proceeds to give to you.
A smile is to personal contacts what oil is to machinery, and no intelligent engineer ever neglects lubrication.
Rejoice evermore (1 Thessalonians 5:16).
A smile may appear to be an outward expression but it actually comes from the inside. A true smile is more than just having our lips turned up on the ends. It is the result of expressing (pressing outward) an inner joy, love, peace, understanding or other positive feelings or thoughts. Obviously, if these mental or spiritual states do not exist in us, we can not sincerely express them outwardly.
But even when we h ave none of these feelings inside we should still smile. Why? Because it is a great tonic and will help make us and others feel better. It is still a good investment. So, even when we don’t feel like smiling, we should do it anyway. Then we will find ourselves creating inward feelings that we can then show as a true smile. The smile becomes the pathway for positive feelings to come into our hearts. Remember, we are instructed by God that “this is the day the lord has made. Let us rejoice and be glad in it”.
In joy and gladness,
Z Gardener
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