Alyice on January 30th, 2010

Echo Challenge Face

“I think your whole life shows in your face
and you should be proud of that.”
– Lauren Bacall

It’s echo time! This time the prompt is “Face”. From the moment we enter the world, our facial expressions are a portal into our souls.

Just by looking at a person’s face, we can usually tell what kind of mood they’re in: angry, bewildered, frustrated, sad, or joyous, or if they are tired or in pain.

By observing a person’s facial expressions, we can tell if they’re approachable, busy, interested, shy, or dangerous. We can also tell if they’re surprised, terrified, or just plain disgusted.

But did you realize that in the faces of others, we seek out acceptance, approval, and even love?

Or that in our faces, we can influence others? We can bring them down, or we can lift them up. The choice is ours…

Albert Einstein once said, “The ideals which have lighted my way and, time after time, have given me new courage to face life cheerfully have been kindness, beauty, and truth.“

As we move further into the new year, I hope that we can learn to embrace Einstein’s words of wisdom. That we not only seek out a renewed sense of courage within ourselves, but that by truly observing the facial expressions of others, we learn to reach out more—and lend a helping hand.

We may not have the financial resources to change a person’s life, but we—at the very least—have the ability to give someone the acceptance they long for, to provide a listening ear or a shoulder to cry on, or to bring laughter back into the lives of the hurting.

By simply taking a few precious moments out of our days, we can, in fact, alter the realities of others.

Until next time…

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Meri says:
Your son looks like he’s aggravated to be leaving his snug warm nest, as if he’s saying, “What are you guys doing to me?”
Posted at 8:32 pm January 30th, 2010
Alyice says:
I know, huh? That was after 36 hours of hard core labor. They finally had to put me under and do a c-section. To this day, my hub can’t look at the picture without remembering how scary that time was.
Posted at 9:44 pm January 30th, 2010
diane cook says:
Great story and pictures of your children Alyice.
Yes, I do believe faces have more to say than often meets the eye….
Posted at 9:56 am January 31st, 2010

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