#Facetime

#Facetime

 

As a young teenager I used to sing on our local church choir.  We’d sing until heaven’s gates were opened, and the angels themselves came and sat in the pews and danced alongside the saints in the aisles of my home church as a girl.  What a wonderful time we’d have!  I always felt the presence of God there on Sunday’s and Friday night services… and Tuesday evening bible studies, etc.  Our faces shone bright with the glow of God’s powerful presence and His anointing.  Now… when I was in my teen moments of angst… say, I had maybe gotten scolded by my mom prior to church for maybe not listening, or fully handling a responsibility that was required… or someone said something funny out of their mouth to me in church…or someone hit an off note in the musician’s corner or that note didn’t quite meet the mark… or even our pastor at the time said or sang a little something that sounded off … my countenance changed…(as teens tend to do). I'd be on the choir... with a sour face. My mother would look at me and some others… and they’d say, “Fix your face!”…I’d sigh and really try… try is the operative word.

I was never one to hold onto my expressions and pretend. I still do not today. I am not a “great pretender”.  I am saying all of this to say that in the church, and outside of the church walls… in our everyday lives, on the job, in the store, at our children’s schools… we must remember to show and share the “ministry of countenance”. It is one of the first things that is noticed… face time. Walk into a room… when folks look up, they see your face. They see your body language… it’s important always to keep your head up, keep a smile and a kind word in your mouth.  What does your face time show?

Proverbs 27:19 (New International Version) “As water reflects the face, so one's life reflects the heart.”

*Note to self: Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

Peace and Blessings,

LaShawna