A Merry Heart
©2003 Susan Noyes Anderson
image by Anita Schiller from His Children
A merry heart will not be bound
by winter snow or frozen earth.
No weathered brow or soil-stained cheek
can quell the buoyant lines of mirth.
A merry heart is medicine;
it worketh good for all mankind.
Instinctively, we reach for joy:
Children of Light, and unresigned.
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“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.” – Proverbs 17:22
“The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.” – E. E. Cummings
“Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“I don’t think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
– Anne Frank
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Susan Noyes Anderson
Susan Noyes Anderson is the author of At the End of Your Rope, There’s Hope, Deseret Book, ©1997; Awaken Your Spiritual Power: The Fairy Godmother Isn’t Coming!, Karisma Press, ©1999; and His Children (poetry only, photos are by Anita Schiller), Vantage Point Press, ©2003.