Show SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT by F A WALKER YOUR MENTAL SUNSHINE A THOUSAND things unpleasing x may hover over your horizon and frown down upon you at every step but it you will keep your mental sun shine eier bright and radiant you will march along the way in gladness and as you go you will scatter the bright beams all about you cheering the despondent lighting their life and encouraging them to emu late your example A bright face Is good to behold but far better Is a bright mentality which shuns the darkness and stands forth in the sunlight with a smile on its lips like a friendly beacon above snarling waters by keeping your mental sunshine unsullied by holding out to the weary and discouraged a joyous hand you are making the world happier and contributing happiness to yourself adding all the while to your own strength and usefulness lour company Is sought by the old and the young by the proud and the humble who will soon learn to adore you because of the kindly light that chines from your eyes and the musical intonation that softens your voice and when this mental sunshine Is stimulated by faith it becomes a roar power for good it awakens dormant capabilities in others and silra them to loftier thoughts and en deavors it is like the sun of the heavens which imparts the beautiful colors to flowers the cooling greens to the trees and the sheen of silver to the streams scattering gladness everywhere contrast the morbid moody glum and dour man or woman with the man or woman who Is in the headey and full flush of mental sunshine and you will understand why one Is a failure and the other a success we live not upon food alone but to a large extent upon the sunshine that comes from another which often shapes our course as it uncovers our eyes and keeps our feet lorn slipping without this mental sunshine within us it were better perhaps to have no ambition or aspiration at all for strive as we may it we have not this divine spark within our soul we will grope and stumble in the dark and eventually lose our way the greatest love the greatest usefulness and the most exemplary faith falness are f und in hearts alight with hopefulness good will and righteous ness the essence of cheerfulness by syndicate 0 |