Smiles

What makes God smile?

This is another of Dave Daubert's questions - and I like this one a lot. What if everyone would think about this question before starting the day? Maybe we would start to act more civilly toward with one another.

What makes God smile?

• People treating one another with respect even if they don't agree with one another

• Raising the roof with joyful voices singing songs of praise and thanksgiving
  

• The voice that sings quietly by the bedside of someone who is dying, singing a way to heaven

• When we really put forth an effort to love our enemies
  

• The thousands of ELCA youth and advisors who helped clean up New Orleans
  

• Those who think of others first before thinking of themselves
  

• Bach and Agape, Duke Ellington and Rachel Kurtz, the Beatles and the Roches

• People figuring out how to use their gifts to serve others

• When we challenge injustice in all its forms

• When we leave the judging up to God instead of taking that role on ourselves

• Countries working toward peace

• Working to heal our neighborhoods instead of fleeing them

• When we "err on the side of grace"
  

• When we pray....