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).
Brothers and sisters,
There are few things that have better return on investment than a smile. Ironically, it has more impact on the one smiling than upon those who receive the smile. The greatest benefits accrue when we don’t feel like smiling. Like lighting a match in a dark room, a smile illuminates everything and in so doing changes everything for the better. If one wants to act divinely today, let them smile and bring the joy of that smile to others. Especially for those who are down, if they can just muster a smile, their world will be little brighter and so will everyone else’s. And guess what, God will be smiling right along with us because God loves us and wants us to rejoice each day.
Smiling on,
Z gardener
Good Morning Garden 
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