dailydatewithgod

Honestly, smiling was the last thing I was thinking of doing yesterday and while today is a new day I am still thinking of the goings on of the day before.  I don’t usually get super personal in this blog, but a dear friend of mine is dying.  Brain cancer has gotten the best of her and she is slowly departing to the next phase of her life.  She is someone who in her mid-sixties is as spunky and bright as any shining star in the sky. It is hard to watch someone’s light go out. As I saw her yesterday, sleeping peacefully, I thought who she has become is not recognizable because she is in a transition phase between this world and next.  Her soul is ready to go on so it is leaving her body little by little.  I can smile at the thought that she will now get to be fully free and be a guardian angel over all the people who were gathered to say goodbye yesterday.  God must really need her close by to do some good work.  None of us our immune.  The story, whatever it is in the interim all ends in the same way-we go.  No matter what we do or how we do it, it ends at some point.  The question is how do I want to spend the moments that I do have, smiling or frowning?  It actually takes three times as many muscles to frown but gravity works in favor of frowning so it takes a little more effort to smile.  That is where God comes in.  We can smile at each new day not because we know whether it is one among many or our last.  We can smile not because everything in life is rosy and wonderful, but because the Creator of our smiles has given us a new day today to do something and be something.  We have a purpose today. We have something to give and especially when we don’t “feel” it, we can act our way into an attitude of gratitude by smiling.  My prayer for us today is to have the courage to express gratitude for being alive through a smile.  Make it a great one! Peace~Colleen