Smiling for Love

A small girl of seven had been proudly helping her mother in small kitchen duties. When all was done, the mother looked down at her child with the love-light in her eyes and with a kiss gave words of commendation.
Then the child, looking up into her mother's eyes said softly, "Mother, do you ever smile up at God as you smile down at me - just for love, you know? I do very often. It's so nice just to smile up at God."
Then the mother thought tenderly of the words, "Their faces do always behold the face of My Father."