Anyone can smile during a good day. What I want to know is can you still smile at the end of a bad day? It has taken me twenty five years of working on myself but I can say yes. I can still smile at the end of a bad day. At the end of a bad year. At the end of a bad decade. I can still smile.
Did Joseph hate his brothers who sold him into slavery? Or his cousins who bought him and then resold him? Or did he choose to love God and then to smile? Naomi lost everything in a strange land. Yet at the end of her life she still smiled. There is a non-canonical story about Jesus. According to the story he danced on the way to his death. Happy to die. What did he know?
Maybe he knew that sundown doesn't mean sunover. Sundown doesn't mean sunout. Maybe it means sunrest. Maybe it means sunpreparation.
Yes it had taken me more than a quarter century to learn that I can still smile. And I am still learning. Learning to test the theories and theologies that are presented to me. Learning to find my own way. Learning to smile when everything around me says no.
In Love, Light, and Liberty,
Enoch
