{"product_id":"9781683145172","title":"A Joke a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: Metaphors \u0026 Mirth to Make the Heart Merry","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow about putting fun back in the fundamentals of the faith?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“I am devoting the rest of my life to turning my griping into gratitude, my murmuring into melody. I want to spend my days not bellyaching but singing the praises of God. Unfortunately, too many of us are stalled at the test of gratitude. A double dose of holy humor can cure that malady,” says author Rev. Dr. Marshall L. Hoffman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“Holy hilarity, a sanctified sense of humor, is strong medicine. “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones” (Prov. 17:22 KJV). A merry heart keeps us from taking ourselves too seriously.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“One of the signs of a healthy mind is the ability to smile at ourselves and see the humorous side of everything we do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e“The medicine of a merry heart not only cures us from an exaggerated sense of self-importance, it tends to put space between us and the traumatic experiences in our lives. It acts as a buffer zone to absorb some of their bad vibrations. There’s nothing like a merry heart to medicate you from the remorse and regrets of the woulda-coulda-shoulda syndrome.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne hundred and forty-seven daily portions of mirth—from jokes to rib-tickling stories, from tall tales to true accounts, from hilarious things kids say to funny things that happen in church—these drops of holy hilarity will lighten any heart.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Redemption Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47053438320880,"sku":"9781683145172","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781683145172_p0.jpg?v=1763699042","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781683145172","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}