faces

I like smiling at strangers and watching them receive the love they forgot was theirs to receive. Hope, love, and mercy are too often forgotten. Smiling helps people remember.

I've been thinking recently a lot about faces. I think God knew exactly what he was doing when he made them. Who would have thought that hearts would immediately be webbed together with a smile? They are.
Hearts change when they feel cared for. You could almost call it...magic.

Here's a poem. Audrey Assad's song, "For Love Of You" is based on the last three lines (which are the best, in my opinion.)

As Kingfishers Catch Fire by Gerard Manley Hopkins

As king fishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
As tumbled over rim in roundy wells
Stones ring; like each tucked string tells, each hung bell's
Bow swung finds tongue to fling out broad its name;
Each mortal thing does one thing and the same:
Deals out that being indoors each one dwells;
Selves -- goes itself; myself it speaks and spells,
Crying What I do is me: for that I came.

I say more: the just man justices;
Keeps grace: that keeps all his goings graces;
Acts in God's eye what in God's eye he is --
Christ. For Christ plays in ten thousand places,
Lovely in limbs, and lovely in eyes not his
To the Father through the features of men's faces.


Since I mentioned Audrey, I thought I'd give you a *few* of my favorites by her. I have many more. =]