31 Proverbs to Light Your Path by Liz Curtis Higgs

Author:Liz Curtis Higgs [Higgs, Liz Curtis]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The Crown Publishing Group
Published: 2017-10-03T00:00:00+00:00

For years I quoted this verse while watching audiences experience the healing power of laughter. To be honest, I shared only the first half, the cheery part: “A merry heart doeth good like a medicine” (KJV). I’ve since learned the truth of the second half of the verse and why a “joyful mind” (DRA) is the best remedy in God’s medicine cabinet when “a broken spirit drieth the bones” (KJV).

We were in the middle of a difficult holiday season. Bill’s father had died of cancer the Saturday before Thanksgiving, so our family gathering was noticeably smaller and definitely sadder. We almost dreaded getting together for Christmas since Mr. Higgs would have turned ninety on December 25. So we saved our celebration for the thirty-first, figuring we’d ring in the New Year by opening presents and sharing happier memories.

Everybody wanted homemade lasagna. My cooking skills are limited, but I can usually manage to layer pasta, ricotta cheese, and tomato sauce in a baking dish without mishap. However, I’d never made two dishes at once—one for the meat lovers and one for the vegetarians in the family. When I reached for some wax paper so I could lay out the freshly cooked pasta to cool, I found to my dismay that the box was empty.

“Just leave the pasta in the hot water,” my son suggested. “Maybe add a little oil to keep it from sticking together.”

The first dish came together easily enough. But when I started on the second, the slippery, overcooked pasta came out of the water, not in long, ruffled strips, but in oddly shaped hunks. By the time I finished, my veggie lasagna looked like something a five-year-old would make with modeling clay.

Did I burst into tears? I did not. I burst out laughing.

Soon I was laughing so hard I had to sit down. My family, who’d wandered off to admire the Christmas tree, came back into the kitchen. “Mom? Are you all right?”

I was howling by this point, tears streaming down my face. When they saw the lasagna, they understood. Sort of.

All I know is, I hadn’t carried on like that in weeks. Months. And this verse from Proverbs is the absolute truth.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.