WHEN GOD SMILES

“WHEN a person does a good deed when he or she didn’t have to,” the Jewish Talmud says, “God looks down and smiles and says, ‘For this moment alone it was worth creating the world’.”

It’s a beautiful portrayal of an image, isn’t it? But it does beg the question of what happens when someone chooses to do an unkind thing.

I like to imagine a sort of comic set of scales, with negative acts tipping the pointer one way, and positive acts tipping it the other.

Now, given that there are definitely people out there with a penchant for the negative, what shall we do to keep the scales tipped in the right direction?

Let’s keep that smile on God’s face!