Today, as Charles Butler was paying for the groceries at the store, I was sitting on a bench people watching. The woman in the line before Charles was immaculately dressed, with a perfect hairstyle, expensive jewelry, and a set frown on her face. The lines on her face showed a history of looking unhappy or dissatisfied, even as she smiled goodbye at the checker, the lines remained. (The checker had much the same look, but only 30 years younger.)
As I pondered her, I said a quiet prayer, "Lord, let me never have a set unhappy look, or let me look as if I'm always mad."
As I said it, the answer came back to me, in the still of my heart, "Child, that's your job. You control how happy or unhappy you are, how content or not."
How true that is! We decide whether we will be satisfied with life, or always wanting; if we will be of a happy mind set, or angry, or morose. We decide whether we will look for the best of another person, the best of an area, the best of anything...or whether we will seek out fault.
It came to me then too, that as our face shows our general mindset, and can be graven into lines of happiness or dissatisfaction, so can our heart and soul be shaped.
What are you shaping your face, and heart, into?
Be blessed my friends, and may you be a blessing to someone else.
-Beth
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