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.