The first of March is "Share a Smile Day." Why just one day? Let's make every day a National Smile Day! Joseph Addison puts it this way, "What sunshine is to the flowers, smiles are to humanity...the good they do is inconceivable." Remember, it takes 43 muscles to frown and only 17 to smile! A world traveler once explained, "In all the countries I have been to, everyone understands a smile." We soon learn when we travel that all people smile in the same language.

This past month in February, many of us experienced over 200 hours of clouds and darkness. How joyful we were when the sun shone through. There were smiles. Smiles do add to our face value. :) A well known poet, Helen Steiner-Rice states at best, "There is sunshine in a smile. Life is a mixture of sunshine and rain, laughter and pleasure, teardrops and pain. All days can't be bright but it's certainly true. There was never a cloud the sun didn't shine through. So just keep on smiling, whatever, betide you, secure in the knowledge God is always beside you. And you'll find when you smile, your day will be brighter, and all of your burdens will seem so much lighter. For each time you smile, you will find it as true. Somebody somewhere will smile back at you. And nothing on earth can make life more worthwhile than the sunshine and warmth of a beautiful smile. So let's start every day with a smile on our face. And then we'll let the sun shine through. We will greet everyone who crosses our path, and it's amazing. Our day is brightened too."

From the Mailbag: Recipe for life - One cup good thoughts, one cup kind deeds, one cup consideration for others. One cup well beaten faults, three cups forgiveness. Mix thoroughly and add tears of joy, sorrow, and sympathy for others. Fold in four cups of prayer and faith to lighten other ingredients and let rise to great heights of Christian living. After pouring all this into your family life, bake well with the warmth of human kindness. Serve with a smile.

More Warm Thoughts: A smile is the shortest distance between two people. Victor Borge. Lighten up your life with a smile!

Warm Thoughts from the Little Home on the Prairie Over a Cup of Tea by Luetta G Werner

Published in the Marion Record, March 5th, 1998.

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Trina