Someone else in the world appreciates the value of seeing something not just as what it is, but what it could be.
What if we did this for everyone, everyday. Saw them for the people that God created them to be, and not the people we perceive them as. This has always been my mission throught the gospel with our middle schoolers. My hope is that I can be an example of what happens when they open their eyes and their hearts to the smiley's that surround them.
Seeing the outcast in their school as people with joy and love, showing them Christ in difficult situations, explaining how obeying their parents is a great thing - prying them away from the mirror and their cellphones so they can look out and see simply beauty inside their hearts and in the community. These simple beauties sometimes come in the form of a smiley.
What we see isn't always what is there. God creates smiles from even the most basic/abstract, crazy parts/things in our life.
I hope you see a spontaneous smiley today.
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