Good Medicine

“Let’s have a happy heart and a cheerful disposition”  is what my friend used to say to her children. She knew a happy heart and a cheerful disposition would go a long way in making life sweeter. Little did I know Solomon made the same suggestion:

“A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit saps a person’s strength.” Proverbs 17: 22

The KJV translates saps a person’s strength as drieth the bones. Neither sapped strength or dried bones sounds good to me. What do you think?

I have repeated my friend’s words more times than I can count on two my two hands and two feet. What is amazing is the more I repeated them, the more I headed them. They have become my “good medicine” for  a bad mood. It is easy to get down. The more often you get down, the harder it is to get back up again.

I am thankful today for my friend’s and Solomon’s words. It isn’t easy to take the medicine of a cheerful heart but the effort is well worth it. Do I always look at the merry side of things, not at first, however I am quickly reminded of the choice I have;  to be merry or miserable.

I choose to take my medicine.

 

3 Comments

  1. Love this! Thank you Wendy! Better advice I have never heard! I really needed to read this today!

  2. Thanks Wendy, I needed this I tend to be miserable and not merry when things don’t go my way! 🙁 Thanks for the medicine 🙂 ♥

  3. Isn’t it amazing! The more we take up the practice of repeating God’s Word, the sooner His Living Word rescues our hearts in times of doubt or trial. God is more than amazing!

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