Ave Maria Meditations
Keep smiling. It is a grand thing to cultivate a smile. Keep the corners of your mouth up, especially if you are in for an attack of the dumps. There are three D’s to be avoided: the devil, the doctor, and the dumps.
The devil, we all know, is bad enough; the doctor is very little better; and the dumps are the devil himself! So I repeat, keep smiling, it is the very best remedy for gloom. The devil loves nothing better than a gloomy soul; it is his plaything.
Smile a while and while you smile, another smiles and soon there’s miles and miles of smiles, and life’s worthwhile because you smile.
+Fr. William Doyle S.J.
