Arthur Blessitt Weekly - Vol. 2, No. 37

A Smile

I trust you are already smiling.

It is truly awesome the attraction of a smile.

Just think whom you would rather be around.
A smiling, pleasant person
or
an unsmiling, grim person?

You don't have to fake a smile. Just let the smile flow from your heart.
However even if you must fake it, better to spend the day smiling than having an unsmiling face all day long.
What do you look like when you come home? How do you look during dinner and through the evening? Take a look in the mirror.

The word smile or smiling is not in the entire Bible! To many this may be shocking. However many other words are used that could mean that the person may be smiling. Rejoicing, laugh, joy, laughing and shouting etc are often used but there still is no mention of that wonderful word'¦smile.
One can only assume that a laughing person is also smiling or a joyful person is smiling.

Surely there is a time to smile but there is also a time to weep, etc. About two months ago my mother died and I spoke at her funeral. I must say that there were tears and smiles and some times both were at the same time. The next morning after the funeral my sister and I sat for hours talking mother and dad. We remembered old things that happened and talked about mother's final day and hours and moments. There were tears but also we were laughing and smiling and weeping and rejoicing and sad at the same time. It was a glorious and needed time for both of us.

What I want this column to do is just encourage you to live with a pleasant smiling face in your daily life. Just to look at some people or be around them and you are almost drug into depression! They are a constant drain on all around them. Is that person you?

Stop by the mirror and look at the real you. Listen to yourself on a voice message you leave. How do you look? How do you sound?

May we all do a little self-check up on the way we appear and sound when we are talking.

There is nothing more attractive in your witness as you share Jesus as a pleasant smiling face.
Often I have people comment on me as I carry the cross, even in difficult times up mountains or in the jungles are along hot roads. The say, “you are walking with such joy and with a smile'.
I seek to live in such a way that the pleasant joyful spirit of the Lord that is within me is reflected to the world.

It is easy to pick up bad habits. An unpleasant look is one of these.

I pray the Joy of the Lord will fill your heart and mind and face and voice!

Glory

No matter what happens you can'¦still smile!

You cannot control all things happening around you but you can sure control how you react to them.

A pilgrim follower of Jesus,

Arthur Blessitt Editor
Luke 18:1
Denise Blessitt Associate Editor