{"id":637,"date":"2008-09-17T07:22:45","date_gmt":"2008-09-17T14:22:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/pantinghart\/?p=637"},"modified":"2008-09-17T07:22:45","modified_gmt":"2008-09-17T14:22:45","slug":"a-merry-heart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/pantinghart\/2008\/a-merry-heart\/","title":{"rendered":"A Merry Heart"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
Reading:<\/font>
\nProverbs 15:12-22<\/font>
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“A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken”<\/font><\/b> (13).<\/p>\n

So the route to a genuinely cheerful face is through a “merry” heart.<\/p>\n

Hmmm. I don’t have a cheerful countenance.<\/p>\n

“All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a countinual feast”<\/font><\/b> (15).<\/p>\n

And the route to a positive perspective on life is also by way of a “merry” heart. (For a life perspective, I’ll take a sense of feasting over one of evil any day!)<\/p>\n

Hmmm. I don’t have a continual feast.<\/p>\n

I seem to be striking out in the Merry Heart Department.<\/p>\n

But what’s with this “merry” business?!<\/p>\n

Lemme look in my Spanish Bible…. Well, how about that!<\/p>\n

Verse 13 begins, “The happy heart beautifies the countenance.”<\/font><\/b><\/p>\n

And verse 15 talks about the contented heart.<\/p>\n

Whatever a “merry” heart is, I need one.<\/p>\n

I want one!<\/p>\n

Tell me how to get one.<\/p>\n

\"[A<\/a>
\nfrom Proverbs 15:21<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

A little bit more from Proverbs 15:<\/b> Established Purposes<\/font><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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