What Does Your Face Really Say?

The Face of your Soul 

 

Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

                                                   Charles Dickens

 Recognize the familiar Amazon trademark--"Look Inside?"  Click on it to view the content. Right? Now look in the mirror.  What does your face really say to others?

John Savage, psychologist, writes in Helping Skills, that our body language is always close to 55% of the message. (literal words, 10% and tone, 35%).  So the daily question for us is--what do we really say with our lives?

Remember that haunting  picture called "The Scream?"  Now that's a "talking picture!"  How would you interpret the face of the soul? And if you saw your own picture, what do you think you would really see--what do others see in you? 

Some argue that Facebook is the greatest misnomer around precisely because it gives us words--not the body language of who we really are.  In fact, the MIT communications whiz-kids now tell us that the projections of the "DAILY ME" substitutes for really being ourselves in relationships.  They say we are "two faced"--one way on line, another in public.

It seems to me that the Facebook question is left to each person--is it a prop or does it help us to understand who we are so we can be that in relationship.

I think that Victor Hugo's Les Miserables--the text--hits at the deeper level of who we are.  "When the eyes dry up, so does the soul.  When the eyes cry, we glimpse the soul." Our faces are talking pictures of our souls.

Remember the old saying?  If you are really so happy, please inform your face.  Maybe the reverse is true. If we dare to look into our own faces, we can see our own souls and find an immeasurable worth in who we really are as the handiwork of the Creator.  We are talking pictures.  Perhaps we'd best listen to what our souls are saying.