Spiritual Truth Thursday: A Cheerful Heart

It always seems easy to tell my friends and loved ones not to worry, but I often have a hard time taking my own advice.  There are many things that we as women deal with on a regular basis that lead to worry, doubt, and fear.  Our finances, relationships, children, moving to a new city (Shout out to Diva Tee ), job security, school, and especially healthcare.  Just look at all the women’s health issues that have been in the news this week — the Pfizer birth control recall and Susan G. Komen pulling their funding from Planned Parenthood. When we worry it’s hard to have a positive outlook on life.  The more negative we become the more we worry.  Sometimes we even worry ourselves heart sick.  Anxiety leads to a heavy heart which can lead to depression and increase your risk of heart disease.   So when life seems to get you down, it’s important to seek sources of encouragement. “An anxious heart weighs a man down, but a kind word cheers him up” – Proverbs 12:25.

The scripture provides us with a simple step to a cheerful heart…hear a kind word!  We can receive a kind word from reading scriptures, during a vent session with our girlfriends, or even from talking with family. You may even need to speak a kind word to yourself!  Wake up in the morning and take a look in the mirror and say, Be Amazing Today, I’m fearfully and wonderfully made, I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me, I am Beautiful, and I will Be Bold Today!  These simple kind words can begin to ease your fears and fill your heart with hope.  It takes a cheerful heart for when trials come your way to be able to remain strong and rest on God’s promises.  Having a cheerful heart will help you to be bold and take risks!  A cheerful heart is medicine to your soul.  

Are you heart sick today? Read some of your favorite scriptures or affirmations and call up your bestie, booski, bff, boo, your boyfriend, your mama, or Jesus (who is always on the mainline) and let them pour into you words of encouragement to cheer up your heart!

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Join Divas, MPH in our 2012 digital media campaign, I <3 Her Heart: Wear Red for the Heart You Love, this Friday, February 3, 2012 for National Wear Red Day.  Take a picture of yourself in red, for the heart of a woman you love, and share it one of the following ways:  post to Divas, MPH on Facebook, tweet to @DivasMPH using the #HeartTruth hashtag, or email to heart@divasmph.org.

Divas EJ