Smile . . . Seriously
I've learned through my extensive work as a ER nurse what is quite healing for people, along with careful attendance to regimes of treatment, are simple acts of kindness. A smile literally lifts not only the spirit of the one who delivers this happy thought to the world, yet, it also directly affects the individual for whom eyes meet, and a smile is delivered. And it immediately translates into every language.
Think about it. If we took the task upon ourselves each day to deliver a smile to others, sincerely, with an intent of Gratitude, wholeheartedly, in desire to know God through this simple act of Joyful unity, what miracles might arise?
Re-defining our relationship with the world, as being an individual baptized in mind and heart in relationship for God---the Course would call the role a miracle worker--- as a conduit for connectivity between God, our brother, and ourselves, seems a worthy trinity.
How many people do you know who spend their days in misery? Or recounting the past in relation to trials and tribulations? Or even ask us to join in some long story of yesterday of how their life was troubled, their body ill, or all the difficulties they encountered, making you feel they want you to join them in their pathway of suffering?
What a smile can do, delivered in the Joy of decision to know God in the world, is generalize itself in magnificence, and be catalytic for healing for everyone.
If we are choosing Excellence for ourselves, the way this is given as a Gift to our brothers, is finding a modality that truly works for being a catalyst to offer miracles in the world.
What does a smile do?
It transcends distance for one. You smile at a stranger on the street, you immediately feel closer, and more as One.
It speaks of a willingness for friendship, and Love in the world. It offers a gateway for further communication.
It makes you personally happy, having made a decision to join with what is your innate birthright as a Happy Child of God.
Yet, it goes further. And the reason is because offering a smile, a heartfelt, "I know you exist," kind of communication can linger in the heart and mind of the brother you gave this gift, and actually have an effect on the thoughts your brother carries in his heart and mind right Now.
I make it a habit, as I walk through hospital hallways, seeing families, and patients, in the ER, to offer them a smile, a face of Gratitude, a communication of Love, a demonstration of willingness to validate their existence in the world.
A smile is magical, transformational, and is the beginning of rising both our thoughts and our brothers beyond our limiting judgments and grievances. It is an act of kindness, yet has the ability for forgiving all we held in mind with a re-newed determination for Love, gentleness, and compassion.
But mostly, it recognizes our brother as ourself, except in time. We have been where our brother has walked, we have endured his suffering, we have known of the heartache, we have often chosen loneliness. The feeling of being orphaned can be gone!
We can change all that for ourselves and our brother in a single act: A smile. The smile refuses to re-live the past, it, if only for a Moment, brings us both in the Now, and it offers a gateway towards forgiveness of all thinking, allowing Thoughts of God and Love to dominate the mind.
This choice for a single, deliberate, demonstration of Faith can be contagious. We can pass it on, and teach others to do the same, by being a witness for happiness in the world.
So, don't ask me to join you in your deliberations over past woes, or determinations that trials and tribulations are the way to grow. The Now is a powerful Moment, and a well delivered smile, generalizes Love in the world, with potential of personal and individual transformation, beyond our seeming simple decision to give our brother a broad smile.
An Act of Love. A choice to extend kindness. And a refusal to hear the yesterdays of someone who needs to be gently lifted to the Idea there is a way, and that is, through decision to join in the Now in this simple act of forgiveness.
One who walks,
Jeanette
Think about it. If we took the task upon ourselves each day to deliver a smile to others, sincerely, with an intent of Gratitude, wholeheartedly, in desire to know God through this simple act of Joyful unity, what miracles might arise?
Re-defining our relationship with the world, as being an individual baptized in mind and heart in relationship for God---the Course would call the role a miracle worker--- as a conduit for connectivity between God, our brother, and ourselves, seems a worthy trinity.
How many people do you know who spend their days in misery? Or recounting the past in relation to trials and tribulations? Or even ask us to join in some long story of yesterday of how their life was troubled, their body ill, or all the difficulties they encountered, making you feel they want you to join them in their pathway of suffering?
What a smile can do, delivered in the Joy of decision to know God in the world, is generalize itself in magnificence, and be catalytic for healing for everyone.
If we are choosing Excellence for ourselves, the way this is given as a Gift to our brothers, is finding a modality that truly works for being a catalyst to offer miracles in the world.
What does a smile do?
It transcends distance for one. You smile at a stranger on the street, you immediately feel closer, and more as One.
It speaks of a willingness for friendship, and Love in the world. It offers a gateway for further communication.
It makes you personally happy, having made a decision to join with what is your innate birthright as a Happy Child of God.
Yet, it goes further. And the reason is because offering a smile, a heartfelt, "I know you exist," kind of communication can linger in the heart and mind of the brother you gave this gift, and actually have an effect on the thoughts your brother carries in his heart and mind right Now.
I make it a habit, as I walk through hospital hallways, seeing families, and patients, in the ER, to offer them a smile, a face of Gratitude, a communication of Love, a demonstration of willingness to validate their existence in the world.
A smile is magical, transformational, and is the beginning of rising both our thoughts and our brothers beyond our limiting judgments and grievances. It is an act of kindness, yet has the ability for forgiving all we held in mind with a re-newed determination for Love, gentleness, and compassion.
But mostly, it recognizes our brother as ourself, except in time. We have been where our brother has walked, we have endured his suffering, we have known of the heartache, we have often chosen loneliness. The feeling of being orphaned can be gone!
We can change all that for ourselves and our brother in a single act: A smile. The smile refuses to re-live the past, it, if only for a Moment, brings us both in the Now, and it offers a gateway towards forgiveness of all thinking, allowing Thoughts of God and Love to dominate the mind.
This choice for a single, deliberate, demonstration of Faith can be contagious. We can pass it on, and teach others to do the same, by being a witness for happiness in the world.
So, don't ask me to join you in your deliberations over past woes, or determinations that trials and tribulations are the way to grow. The Now is a powerful Moment, and a well delivered smile, generalizes Love in the world, with potential of personal and individual transformation, beyond our seeming simple decision to give our brother a broad smile.
An Act of Love. A choice to extend kindness. And a refusal to hear the yesterdays of someone who needs to be gently lifted to the Idea there is a way, and that is, through decision to join in the Now in this simple act of forgiveness.
One who walks,
Jeanette
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