Listen to episode 1055 of the Inspirational Living podcast: The Power of Cheerfulness. Edited and adapted from A Gentle Heart by James Russell Miller.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Cheerfulness is a prime secret of health. It keeps one well. It keeps one young. It is one of the secrets of youth.
The philosopher Swedenborg once said that in heaven the oldest angels are the youngest. All life there is toward youth. One reason must be that all life there is cheerful and joyous. If the people in heaven still fretted, and complained, and got discouraged, and went about with heavy hearts and long faces (cheerless and despondent, as so many people do here) — they would get very old by the time they had been a few millenniums in heaven. But being always of good cheer, they keep always young, growing ever towards youth.
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