“A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.”
PROVERBS 17:22
Joy is not frivolous. Proverbs treats a cheerful heart as genuinely healing, as real as any medicine, and a crushed spirit as something that dries a person out from the inside. That is worth taking seriously. Laughter with a friend, a lazy evening in the grass, the simple pleasure of watching rabbits stretch out in the sun: these are not distractions from faith but part of how God restores us. If you have been carrying heaviness for a while, permission is granted to enjoy something good today. A merry heart is not denial of trouble. It is a quiet confidence that trouble does not own the whole story.
