Regarding A Gift...

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The Psalmist said something very profound –

“You have put gladness in my heart, more than in the season that their grain and wine increased.”*

Perspective from the other side. There is joy (of course) when things are good; when folks are fine and life is cruising, all sunshine and roses. But to have joy, in the midst of pain, is to either be delusional or been bestowed a divine gift.

I choose the later.

*Psalms 4:7

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