2012-09-27T10:41:00-05:00 GCI info@gospel.com /feeds/topics/smile/ http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/the-great-door-opener-6709 2012-09-27T10:41:00-05:00 Your greatest attention getter for Christ may be that you have a smile in a sea of sour. A Christian draws his joy, not from what's going on around him, but who Jesus is going on inside him. Nehemiah said, "The joy of the Lord is your strength." http://hutchcraft.com/a-word-with-you/your-personal-power/what-to-wear-today-6283 2011-03-11T16:25:01-05:00 Consider Nehemiah's working wardrobe - a predictable smile, a contagious joy, and a consistent positiveness in the midst of daily drudgery. In our world, that is an attention getter, and that wardrobe is always in style. Wear joy to your work place every day. You'll knock 'em dead! http://biblegateway.com/passage/?book_id=22&chapter=10&verse=3&version=31&context=verse 2009-08-07T09:16:18-05:00 While Job was suffering, he struggled to understand how God could allow the righteous to suffer while evil men prospered. Here, he asked God why He seems to be smiling on the wicked while godly people were drowned in misery. http://hutchcraft.com/A-Word-With-You/Your-Relationships/The-Temporary-Difference-5583 2008-07-21T15:34:26-05:00 When you focus on the temporary loss, you are vulnerable to do something, anything, to relieve the pain. And you often make a permanent mistake to get through some temporary pain. But you don't have to do that when your eyes are on the prize instead of on the pain of the race.