What do you smell like?

My daughter got a new perfume, I love it and find myself wishing she'd get a new one, so I could smell like this every day. The fragrance is light and just makes me happy. I love perfume but they always smell better on someone else. Until this one. So I borrow it often....thanks, honey!


A person I admire greatly shared this prayer with me.
This leader embodies what this prayer talks about and I pray that I, too, can radiate Christ
even through hard things, through devastation, and loss, oh that I could be His fragrance. That I would not carry an odor of unkindness, or cruelty, or indifference, or haste, or busyness, or callousness, or carelessness. Let me, oh Christ, carry Your fragrance and wear it well!

Radiating Christ
by John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801 - 1890)
Dear Jesus,help me to spread Thy fragrance everywhere I go.
Flood my soul with Thy spirit and life.
Penetrate and possess my whole being so utterly
that all my life may only be a radiance of Thine.
Shine through me,and be so in me that every soul I come in contact with
may feel Thy presence in my soul.
Let them look up and see no longer me but only Jesus!
Stay with me,and then I shall begin to shine as Thou shinest,
so to shine as to be a light to others; the light, O Jesus,
will be all from Thee; none of it will be mine;
it will be Thou shining on others through me.
Let me thus praise Thee in the way Thou dost love best
by shining on those around me.
Let me preach Thee without preaching,
not by words but by my example,
by the catching force of the sympathetic influence of what I do,
the evident fulness of the love my heart bears to Thee.
Amen.