Be So Happy!
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here once was a poor young man who wanted to impress upon a rich lady how hungry he was, hoping to get a handout in the way of a good meal. So he got down on his hands and knees on her front lawn and pretended to eat the grass. When the lady saw him from a window, she rushed to the front door. “Oh, my dear poor boy!” she exclaimed. “Why don’t you go around to the back yard? The grass is much longer there!” The generosity of some people! We all need a good sense of humor. The Bible says, “A merry heart does good, like medicine.”1 God created us with a sense of humor and the ability to laugh at things that are funny, so I’m sure He Himself has a sense of humor—especially when I look at some of the things and people He has created and the funny situations He lets them get into. Someone once said that a sense of humor is the ability to see the funny side of a serious situation,
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