“Met die koninkryk van God gaan dit só: Iemand saai die saad op die land…”
The Way of Faith vertel die storie van `n vrou wat deur die Londenstasie stap. `n Bejaarde man keer haar voor. “Verskoon my dame, maar ek wil u graag vir iets bedank,” sê hy beleefd. “My bedank!” roep sy uit. “Waarvoor?” “Ek was `n kaartjieondersoeker,” antwoord hy en noem die plek. Sy eie woorde in sy skewe Engels: “When’ver you used to go by you `allays give me a cheerful smile and a ‘good morning’, and you don’t know what a diff’rence it made to me. Wet or fine, it was `allays the same, and I thinks to meself, ‘Wonder where she gets her smile from; one cannot be `allays happy, yet she seems to,’ and I know’d that there smile must come from inside somehow. Then one mornin’ you comes by and you had a little Bible in yer hand, and I says to meself. ‘P’r’aps that’s where she got her smile from.’ So as I went home that night I bought a Bible, and I’ve been readin’ it and I’ve found Christ, and now I can smile too, and I want to thank yer’.”
So `n klein saadjie en so `n groot oes. Die waarde van `n glimlag: ”A smile costs nothing, but gives much. It enriches those who receive, without making poorer those who give. It takes but a moment, but the memory of it sometimes lasts forever…Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.” Die bron van `n ware glimlag is die vrede in die hart van Jesus se volgelinge.
“Here, vandag wil ek u vreugde uitdeel.”
