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Smile Revolution

August 9, 2018 By admin

Smiles are beautiful and brief experiences that take place so quickly we don’t think twice when they happen. Take a moment and watch children. They share their smiles beautifully and willingly; and if we aren’t careful, we might find ourselves caught in the moment and actually start to giggle or laugh with them. But as adults, we don’t smile so readily as children do. So, what about getting that smile together and sharing it with those around you? There are good reasons to do so.

When we smile we trigger neurotransmitters that help us to feel happy. According to a Psychology Today Blog, endorphins, dopamine and serotonin increase in our bodies and help us feel good. This may reduce stress and pain. Smiling may even help reduce blood pressure and heart rate. 1

Smiling helps us to look better and cheer our surroundings. If someone approaches us in a bad mood and we greet them with a smile, we will have a good chance of dissipating the bad attitude and perhaps get half of a smile out of the deal. After all, a warm and genuine smile can be contagious.

Smiling may help us in customer relations and friendships. Let’s say you have a job that requires you to sell couches to customers. When they see a genuine smile on your face, customers are more willing to enter into a business relationship with you rather than with those who do not smile. The same principle is at work when building healthy friendships.

Is a smile valuable? Researchers at Bangor University asked this same question. By using several economic formulas, they calculated that one smile is worth a little more than a third of a penny. That does not sound like a lot but if we smile frequently during conversations and in relationships, smiles can pay off in the long run. 2

So, what about dusting that smile off and test-driving it among family, friends, and co-workers? What about going into a room full of folks for the purpose of changing the atmosphere with a smile? Why not start a smile revolution.

Pamela A. Williams writes from Southern California.

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Old Dogs Do Learn

September 1, 2015 By admin

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I wasn’t a very strict Mom. I had my rules, but if my kids played their cards right, they could often find a way around me.

I got so tired of asking my son to make his bed that I got him a sleeping bag. Somehow that didn’t seem as disorderly when it wasn’t made up. He also got out of having to take piano lessons – I couldn’t stand his whining.

I used to threaten my children that if they left their lunch or homework at home one more day that they would have to go without, but I always ended up bailing them out by delivering their books or lunch to school. And if they ran out of allowance, I was always good for a loan.

But on the topic of college, I was a rock. If it took them 10 years, they were going to finish. One of my daughter’s boyfriends described me as an over-achiever and he was probably right. I always felt like I had something to prove and blamed a lot of my insecurity on not finishing college.

At the time I was offered a M.R.S. in place of a B.S., I was thrilled. I hated school and was pretty awful at it. I think when I finished my third year at Columbia Union College, I may have had a whopping 2.0 grade point average. High school hadn’t been much better. Throughout the years since 1968, I had thought about finishing and had even taken a few college classes along the way. I loved the process of finding out more about a subject and actually retaining some of what I learned, but I didn’t finish my degree.

Then about three years ago, I got a bulk e-mail about online degrees and decided to give it a try. I found a college that would offer me something other than business and computers, a caring adviser helped get me a student loan(s), discovered I had enough credits to begin my junior year – and I was off. And I can’t describe how fantastic it felt.

My classwork consisted of a college course begun and completed every six weeks. I was considered a full-time student, all the while holding down a full-time job and taking some freelance writing jobs along the way, plus authoring a devotional with my daughter for 2006. It hasn’t been easy, but in one month, I graduate with a B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies with an emphasis in English and Psychology and a GPA of 3.7. Its been expensive, time consuming and at times exhausting. Would I do it again? You bet. My sense of accomplishment is at an all-time high.

Still Growing

Now that I’ve proved I can learn, have my insecurities vanished? Mostly yes, but that had nothing to do with GPA or degrees or the amount of my student loans, it had to do with coming to terms with what makes me worth anything. It’s God’s love and it’s always been there waiting for me to recognize its power. The following verse, with some added personalization, sums it up for me, and it didn’t take a college degree to understand it. “Nothing can ever separate me from His love. Death can’t, and life can’t. The angels can’t, and the demons can’t. My fears for today, my worries about tomorrow, and even the powers of hell can’t keep God’s love away. Whether I am high above the sky or in the deepest ocean, nothing in all creation will ever be able to separate me from the love of God that is revealed in Christ Jesus my Lord” (Romans 8:38).

So, don’t give up on your dreams. Fulfilling them can give you a lot of pleasure and don’t worry about being too old to start. At 58, I figure I’ll die before I pay off my student loans. So keep achieving, but do it because it pleases you. And if it pleases you, you know that the One who will never let you be separated from His love will also be pleased.

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