3 September 2019 .

SMILE

I can’t help but think of a smile from a different perspective and this is strictly based on experience.
Smiling is more than just expressing an emotion. It’s more than expressing joy, excitement, happiness and gratitude. When I think of smiling, I see it as a way of telling your story but ending the story with a message. I see it as a window that emits light.

A Smile is a form of energy that can be transferred from one person to another. It’s one that displays the light that lives in a person’s soul. If your soul is not full of light, then your smile cannot have life in it.

Have you ever looked at someone’s smile and just smile along? Have you experienced a contagious smile? I believe the light that shines from our soul holds a message. It can be for negative reasons or positive.
Example, if someone has been in a hopeless situation and grown to have hope, this experience heals their wounds and fill them with light. So if that person smiles at you, your soul is more likely to register and feel of hope.
This is a personal experience: Radhi Devlukia Shetty is a woman I’ve thought about deeply. Just observing her facial expressions helped me understand this. It felt like magic the way her smiles made me smile instantly. I just look at her and smile. When I thought of her, I felt more light. At first it felt too weird to be true. But the invisible world far exceeds the things your mere eyes can see and understand.
This woman’s smile led me towards wishing to have that light lingering in my smile. That hopeful smile. When I see her smile, all I think of is hope for the future and freedom from life’s load.
There are many more messages a smile can tell someone. It could tell you to be patient, to hang on, to be peaceful , to be grateful, to be hardworking, to do more, or even to rest. To concur to something and more…

Did I try to smile like her? Yes I did. I felt my smile was not just bright as hers, I wanted it to make people smile. One night I was resolving an inner conflict I had with myself and after that I realised that my smile and Radhi’s smile didn’t have to look the same. I had my story and she had hers. Our smile could look different but send the same light, the same message; maybe hope or love or fulfillment or healing. All that mattered was that it was real and not forced; that was a moment of peace for me.

I thought about a story from Sheila Walsh’s book, Get off your knees and pray. The story was about a baby born with down syndrome and the pain the parents felt from this challenge. He grew up but not as a normal kid. He couldn’t learn easily, he was made fun of, might never get married or have children. Here are some statements from this chapter I wouldn’t forget in a hurry:
Sheila said,“I wish I could show you a picture of this young man’s smile. There is a gentle grace about him and a deep abiding sense of the presence of God and his angels.”
His mom said,“People have told me they can tell he loves the Lord, his faces shines! …”
This is a life testimony of Eric Kuntz’s smile. You can see that his smile tells a message of God’s grace as it shines. Amazing thought to me.

“He cries when someone else cries (even if he doesn’t know why he is crying)… “

Smile from your heart. Give light to people. It’s an affordable gift you can throw around. You can throw it right at people’s face and they wouldn’t get offended. No one will punch you for throwing this gift! Put a message on your smile. Not just for your selfies.

Be more than a flashlight.

SMiLe.
P.S Tell me, can you relate to this?