Happiness begins with a Smile!

If happiness can begin with a smile, why not put forth an effort to put a smile on the face of another today?

“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.”–Leo Buscaglia

“A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.” –William Arthur Ward

Here are some amazing facts pertaining to smiling:

1. Women smile more than men.

2. Smiling releases endorphin’s that make us feel better.

3. We are all born with the ability to smile, it’s not something we learn from others.

4. A smile is a universal expression of happiness.

5. A smiling person is thought to be a more pleasant, attractive, sociable, sincere and competent than a non-smiling person.

“A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside.” –Dennis Waitley

Happiness is something you can obtain by helping others to become happy.  It will come to those who go after it.  Yet, at the same time we can pursue to make other’s happy by placing a smile on their face.

How you say?

Let’s look at 20 ways we can put a smile on the face of others today:

1. Send some flowers to your partner.

2. Compliment a friend or work colleague on their appearance.

3. Donate something to charity.

4. Take a friend, loved one or partner out to lunch.

5. Let someone know you miss them and are thinking about them.

6. Make a surprise telephone call to your partner at work, just to say hi.

7. Hold a door open for someone walking behind you.

8. Hug someone you love for no apparent reason.

9. Leave a joke on a friends voice-mail.

10. Send a card to a friend letting them know what a good friend they are.

11. Give up your seat on the bus or train to someone when there aren’t any left.

12. Share your umbrella on a rainy day.

13. Ask a friend if they need anything while you’re out shopping.

14. When it’s raining, plan an indoor picnic with your children.

15. Leave a love letter somewhere where your partner will find it.

16. Send someone an unusual and unexpected gift, such as chocolate or flowers.

17. Tell your child you’re proud of them.

18. Tell someone you thought about them the other day.

19. Cook a surprise meal for your partner one night, especially if they normally do the cooking.

20. Tell someone you love them.

“Great persons are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.”  –Ralph Waldo Emerson

You see,  it takes only 17 muscles to smile, but 43 to frown, so why waste all that energy frowning when you could just smile?  Better yet, take the time to place a smile on the face of another.  Happiness begins with a Smile!

“Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.” –Paramahansa Yogananda

Need a face-lift?  Want to improve on your looks?  ”Smile.”

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Removing the “Sucker-Shoots!”

From time to time we must evaluate our past behavior and take time to remove the “Sucker-Shoots!”

Sucker-Shoots are tiny offshoots which will literally drain and disable the “vine” so that it no longer produces fruit – only leaves.  These shoots are a slow downward spiral based on the wrong choices we’ve made.  If you ignore them and let them continue to grow, in time they will drain or disable you from being Christ centered with the will to do good.  In fact, you will lose all sensitivity to wrong altogether.

Insensitivity to “Sucker-Shoots” will place in your life:

a.  Insensitivity to the needs of others

b.  Your drive for success at the expense of your family, as well as spiritual well being

c.   Laziness and lack of personal discipline

d.  Insecurity

“He cuts off every branch..that bears no fruit.”–John 15:2

It’s a great value that the Creator is determined to remove “Sucker-Shoots.”  He is committed to this purpose and there is nothing which we can do to dissuade Him!  He is relentless and never runs of out creative ideas for destroying them.

A PRAYER FOR THE NEW YEAR
(2014)

Lord, I would ask for a holy year,
Spent in Thy perfect will:
Help me to walk in Thy very steps;
Help me to please Thee still.

Lord, I would ask for a busy year,
Filled up with service true:
Doing with all Thy Spirit’s might
All that I find to do.

Lord, I would ask for a dying world;
Stretch forth Thy mighty hand;
Scatter Thy Word–Thy power
display
This year in every land.

Lord, I would ask for a year of
hope,
Looking for Thee to come,
And hastening on that year of years
That brings us Christ and Home.
–A. B. Simpson

What are the “Sucker-Shoots” in your life?  What is keeping you from being fruitful? Realize that they didn’t spring up overnight.  There’s absolutely no one who makes a “single leap” from the pinnacle of commitment to the deadening swamp of carnality. This occurs over time by giving a deaf ear to the Spirit.

Isn’t it great that we all have the gift of “choice?”  Choose this day for a new life and a new beginning at the brink of this Year End 2013.  Ask God to remove the “Sucker-Shoots,” then, allow Him to do so.

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