I LOVE YOUR GLASSES

We utter around 16,000 words a day…some days sixteen-thousand and two. And every now and then, if we’re blessed, we come face to face with the good our words can do. A mother and her daughter walked into the bookstore. The daughter was ten maybe eleven years old… and I had no idea the wonder that before me would unfold. They came to the counter to purchase a book after browsing through the store for while…. When I said to the daughter, “I love your glasses!” She looked startled, thanked me and she smiled. Her mother was smiling too and as she wiped away a tear She said, “You don’t know how important that was for us to hear.” It seems they had just picked up her new glasses earlier that day… and she was nervous and self-conscious about how she looked and what other people might say. I told her not to worry that I’ve been wearing glasses since Grade 2… And, “With my glasses is can see your glasses look beautiful on you.” Her mother thanked me again and her daughter smiled and waved as she exited the store…. It’s possible my glasses were a little blurry but I’m pretty sure She walked out a little taller and a little prouder than she had a minute before. Of the 16,000 words I say each day…I never would have guessed that ‘I love your glasses’ would be the four words that stood out from all the rest.