Today: Smile and Frown without Guilt

When I was a kid an adult told me it took more muscles to make a frown than it takes to smile. The message was essentially, "quit working so hard to be in a bad mood, happiness is easy."

Nice.

Not only do I feel like crap, but not I have guilt about not smiling.

I think smiling is harder than frowning. Certainly there are those freaks who smile all the time, every moment of every day. Many who found a career in TV evangelism. I'm not going to say that they are faking it, but I'll say they are not normal. Frowning is a gift from God too, one that the church today doesn't value enough. There are entire books of the bible devoted to frowning. Frowning is a Christ-like characteristic, just like smiling. We need to own it.

But this post is about smiling.
In a world with bad news, all the time and stories about pain and suffering from around the world, and around the corner, frowning seems to dominate the landscape.

so today. smile at a stranger. smile at a friend when you greet them. smile and mean it. don't fake it. but let yourself smile today.

and when you frown, do so without guilt!