Smile?

Smiling?

Today was a very long day for me. I am feeling a little bit under the weather. I am just plain out tired. I sat in front of my blog, praying that I would be able to blog about something that would encourage and uplift quickly.

After I took a minute to step away.. it popped in my head. Smile. Blog about smiling. I do not have a bible verse to back up smiling. But I have to believe that when your heart, mind, and soul is at peace we display physical actions. Part of the reason I started this blog was to let you travel with me on my journey.

I have been in some tough situations before. I recently told you all about that wicked surgery I had, that left me down for months. I could not see a reason to smile at all during this time. I was that angry.

About a month after I was home recovering, my mother had taken some pictures and left them in an envelope on the table. I feverishly searched through each picture she had taken. Pictures of the kids, trees, her, the cat... and then I get to the only picture of me. Keep in mind all the other pictures in this envelope were photographed well. But my picture was very dark, as if Mom forgot to put the flash on. It was a picture of me in the hospital, sitting up in my bed... and I was smiling. (lol) When I saw the picture I was very surprised. Because why would I be smiling at a time like this? Only a real dummy would be smiling about something that is so tragic. I don't even remember smiling at all while I was there. But there it was. A moment that captured me at my worse, memorialized me smiling. I have tried many of times to figure out, why was I smiling. I came up with this... Humanly I was at my worse. Flesh and blood I was humanly at my worse. However, The Spirit that lives in me still reflected reflected what my earthly situation couldn't.

With a stuffy nose, sore throat, cough, and a big smile, I say, "Keep up the great work, and we are growing beyond belief!

Until next time. God bless.

Crystal