“ALL SMILES AND SUNSHINE.”
By Lulu Linton
I was talking with a mother one morning last summer, when her baby girl awoke and came down the stairs fretting as babies will when they first awake. The mother took the little one in her arms, and asked cheerily: “What are you going to be to-day, darling?” Instantly the little face brightened, and the baby lisped, “All smiles and sunshine, mama.” Ah! wise little mother, what a lesson you are teaching that precious one, and what a lesson for older people. If we would only learn to awake with the resolution that for just one day we would be all smiles and sunshine, how much brighter this world would be, for it is only one day at a time, remember, and even if we failed at times, surely the days when the sun shines cheerfully for part of the time are better than those of continual gloom. We need to be constantly reminded that we were put into this world for the purpose of making it brighter and better, and our lives are failures in God’s sight if we go about with long faces, and never a smile or cheery word for those whose lives touch ours. Then let us resolve each morning when we awake, that for the day we will try to be “all smiles and sunshine.”—Lulu Linton.