Smiles

I love smiling faces.  Children's faces light up when they smile.  Old people's eyes light up and twinkle when they smile.  People in love have shy smiles when they look at the one they love.  Smiles brighten dull days. Smiles change attitudes.  I once came across a grumpy check-out lady who snarled at customers before me in the line.  When she got to me, I smiled at her.  She didn't do anything.  My children smiled at her, and suddenly, she smiled back.  She packed my groceries nicely, and she said, "Have a good day." Smiles speak love and friendship.  Smiles connect us with others.

God uses nature to smile at us, I think.  Rainbows smile.  When I see a rainbow after a summer monsoon rain in the desert, I see God smiling.  "See," it says to me, "the earth is refreshed, the air is cool, and I remembered you." 

The other day my daughter took this picture of a quail as it came in the early evening for seed block we put out for them : 


Do you see the smile on its face?  Isn't it wonderful.  The simple things in life are not only free, as the saying goes they are fun.

Reader, I hope you have  a wonderful day.  Oh, and Smile, God Loves You!!


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