Look For It
The just right approach to gracious living.
A little girl had the privilege to be in a Sunday school class taught by Alice Freeman Palmer, who later became president of Wellesley
College.
It was in her class that Alice asked the children to find something beautiful in their homes, and then tell the other children about it the next week.
The following Sunday, the little girl was asked what she had found that was beautiful at home. She thought about the condition of the terrible poverty she lived in and replied,
"Nothing. There’s nothing beautiful where I live, except…except the sunshine on our
baby’s curls."
Years later, long after Mrs. Palmer’s untimely death, her husband was lecturing at a university in the western U.S. He was approached by a rather distinguished looking woman who fondly recalled that she had been a member of his late wife's Sunday school class.
"I remember that your wife once asked us to find something beautiful in our homes. And I came back saying the only beautiful thing I could find was the sunshine on my
sister’s curls. The assignment your wife gave me to do was the turning point in my life. I began to look for something beautiful wherever I was and I’ve been doing it ever since."
That one suggestion turned her life around.
