“A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken” (13).

So the route to a genuinely cheerful face is through a “merry” heart.

Hmmm. I don’t have a cheerful countenance.

“All the days of the afflicted are evil: but he that is of a merry heart hath a countinual feast” (15).

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!)

Hmmm. I don’t have a continual feast.

I seem to be striking out in the Merry Heart Department.

But what’s with this “merry” business?!

Lemme look in my Spanish Bible…. Well, how about that!

Verse 13 begins, “The happy heart beautifies the countenance.”

And verse 15 talks about the contented heart.

Whatever a “merry” heart is, I need one.

I want one!

Tell me how to get one.

from Proverbs 15:21

A little bit more from Proverbs 15: Established Purposes