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Dear Community,

Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.

If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.

Thank you.

Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.

Yesterday's Daily devotional

A merry heart does good, like medicine. ?Proverbs 17:22

We Christians can sometimes be a joyless lot, preoccupied with maintaining our dignity. That?s an odd attitude, though, since we?re joined to a God who has given us His wonderful gift of joy and laughter.

It?s okay to have fun! Each family expresses it in different ways, of course. I?m thankful that our house has been a house of laughter. Water fights, good-natured (albeit stiff) competition, gentle ribbing, and hilarity came easily to us. Laughter has been a gift of God?s goodness that carried us through some of life?s darkest days. The joy of the Lord has often been our refuge (Neh. 8:10).

When King David brought the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem from the house of Obed-Edom, he danced ?with all his might? before the Lord (2 Sam. 6:14). The Hebrew word has the idea of joyful exuberance and is akin to our expression ?kick up your heels.? In fact, in verse 16 it says that David was ?leaping and whirling.? Michal, David?s wife, felt that his antics were unbecoming to the dignity of a king and reacted with stern severity. David?s response was to announce that he would become even more ?undignified? (v.22). His spirit was buoyant and he felt ?as light as a feather.?

Take time to laugh! (Eccl. 3:4).  ? David H. Roper

A merry heart is like a medicine?
It?s soothing for your sadness, gives you joy;
So lift your voice and let your spirit soar?
True happiness is yours without alloy. ?Hess

 

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