A cheerful heart

     is a good medicine,

but a downcast spirit

        dries up the bones.

               Proverbs 17. 22

(I may not be able

to change my circumstances,

but God can change 

             my heart in this

and I can choose

     a day-changing attitude.

It impacts me

      and everyone around me.

It is not making the best of it,

     but seeking Him in it,

and bringing the reality of Jesus

                  into it.

O LORD,

    give me a different heart

through this miry bog.)