Someone's telling a story at the table. Maybe it's rambling. Maybe the punchline doesn't quite land. Maybe you've heard it before.
And you can feel the room's energy—that polite half-smile, the slight shift in attention, the quiet moment where everyone's deciding whether to really laugh or just move on.
"A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones."
What if good news right now is just giving them the laugh? Not a fake one—but a real choice to let yourself enjoy the moment they're trying to create, even if it's imperfect. To let your face show them they didn't fail.
It takes nothing from you. But for someone who's been trying to add a little lightness to a heavy room, who's watching faces to see if they mattered, your laugh might be the one thing that tells them they did.
Good news doesn't have to be profound. Sometimes it's just deciding that someone's attempt at joy deserves your kindness.
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Sometimes good news is laughing at someone's imperfect joke because their attempt at joy deserves your kindness. (Proverbs 17:22)
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