The Power of a Smile

The minister at our church is on vacation for the next few weeks and we had a visiting minister today. He told a bit about his background during the sermon and it was quite a touching story. He said that when he was about 12, some of his friends told him that his parents couldn't really be his parents because they were too old. He didn't believe this, but asked his mom if they were really his parents. His mom answered that it was true, that in fact they weren't his real parents and that he had been adopted. It turns out his parents had picked him to adopt from among numerous babies at a hospital, and he asked his mom "why did you pick me out of all the babies there?" And his mother said, "you were the only one that smiled." So one smile when he was a newborn changed the direction of his entire life.