A SWEET SOUL

BY GARY TOOLE

You know quickly what some folks job is down on this earth. To brighten other people’s lives. To encourage others. What a great and important job. That’s why I don’t buy it when folks say, “Oh, I don’t have no talents. There’s just nothing I can do!” Shame, shame, shame! There’s so much that each of us can do. This sweet lady at a nursing home is at least 65 years old and yet she is like a child, but she blesses so many in the home. She told me that she colors pictures from a child’s coloring book and then carries them around to the rooms and gives them to those sick in bed. As she says, “They are so sad! It makes them happy and brightens up their day!” How sweet it is!

A lady I knew for many years, Sister Elsie Hayslip use to testify, “I want to stay sweet in my soul,” and oh how sweet she was all her life and her sweet soul reached out to others like a bright ray of sunshine on a dark cloudy day. I always thought about that and in knowing her for so long I would speak often of how friendly and kind she was, but I later realized that there’s a difference in just being friendly and in really being sweet in your soul. When you’re truly sweet in your soul as she was then your exuberance of warmth can be really felt by all around. A warmth that makes you really feel loved. So now, my testimony, my prayer is, “Lord, make me sweet in my soul. I want to be sweet and stay sweet in my soul!” And thank you, Sister Elsie for teaching me what it means to be sweet in your soul! And I will say amen to that!

PD. ADV.