SMILE! IT'S GOOD FOR YOU

YOU ARE BLESSED - 366 DEVOTIONS

SMILE IT’S GOOD FOR YOU

A kind heart is a fountain of gladness,

making everything in its vicinity freshen into smiles.

Washington Irving

Have you ever sat by a fountain on a warm, sunny day?  You listen to the water as it sends its refreshing and cooling spray of water all around you.  You hear children laughing who try to put their hands in the spray, or see people enjoying a calm, quiet moment just for themselves.

Kindness is like that.  Kindness is the thing that makes people smile because it often comes unexpectedly.  It rushes from nowhere in the face of someone passing by, or in the brief words of encouragement from a total stranger.  It stops you in your tracks as you seek to take it in and hold on to the moment.  It’s your moment of sitting peacefully by the fountain.

May your kindness fall on others like a warming spray of joy, always bringing a cooling sense of hope and peace and charity.

A kind woman gets respect.

Proverbs 11:16 NCV

Lord, help me be ready at any moment

to share a smile and a bit of kindness.

Amen