.loving all of it even while he had to hate some of it because he knows now that you don't love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults. --william faulkner
Wednesday, 07 September 2005
I'm Smiling Because......
acts 9.29 "He (paul) talked and debated with the Grecian Jews, but they tried to kill him."
This sentence makes me smile.
Jim Elliot makes me smile.
Chris and Miller, 2 friends who've stepped out in faith, make me smile.
Martin Luther King Jr and his writings make me smile. So does his voice.
Baldie Gandhi makes me smile.
This woman of faith and her small boy have impacted my life in indescribable ways. I smile when I think of them.
The smile on my face right now is HUGE. Mike's walked through a dry place requiring faith--and assurance of something hoped for but unseen. Mike tends to make me smile.
The list of people who make me smile would take 80 blog sites.
But because of the example of these two people, I know what it means to be joyful in your suffering and to love your enemies. If there was one thing I never lacked in my life, it was their faces, dressed in a smile.
Go make someone smile. You never know, you might end up on their blog page!
(ps--arls, victory, amy jacobs and becca the conqueror...you kept coming to mind as I did this. Beauty is defined by your faces when you smile.)
9 comments:
That's a good one, ASH. I thinkthis on is my favorite blog. It makes me feel good just reading it...................love you
Abbs
Remembering good times makes me smile. Those last two folks make me smile too!
stace,
your creativity makes me smile!
love you girl, ashley
oh becca,
i love you for all your vileness :) at least you say what you mean.
i love that you've changed your name. i should be hanging out with Adam, naming animals and bugs. I'd have been good at it!
love you guys!
You sound happy and that makes me smile... and miss you. So I'm smiling and wanting to cry at the same time. Odd. We'll meet again in VA- or Burma. I'm sure it will happen.
Just wanted to say hello and I really like that picture of Cizz-arol and Biz-ill......ABBY
I found your blog page...that makes me smile. Paraying for you and your big adventure.
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