The Penetrating Effect Of Gladness

"What wisdom, what warning can prevail against gladness? There is no law so strong which a little gladness may not transgress."

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-Henry David Thoreau.

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What a bolt of thunderous truth is this offering. Gladness penetrates. I received an email from my church just now and I read with gladness the gladness of a pastor seeing all this wonderful ministry of God around him. That's what I read (between the lines) as he lifted one person after another up to the whole 'e-congregation.' The Spirit of God at work.

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Gladness has an oily joy about it. It refuses to be swayed by anything but the best, though it can also see and deal with the worst; it's full of love. It reminds me of the old spiritual quoting Isaiah: "Put on garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness." If there's a smile, no matter the circumstances, there's life, pure and simple!

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Life is precious. If gladness can get us even halfway there why would we not voluntarily be more glad? Gladness has real and divinely-anointed power about it.