! ! His Smile

He smiled … it was as if I’d never seen a smile before; as if, that moment, God invented smiles; as if there’d never been a reason for a gift that was so good… He smiled… as if from every day and year of his own life, with each its gratitude to give assurance, that we’re living here to fill our living with that godly good… Was this how angels smile? Was this as God – who has no need to smile – and thus, whose smile may be unbounded, when he sees mankind now in His image, shining as He shines? Was this the peace on earth of God’s first dawn? Mandela smiled.. and mankind was reborn.