Priceless Results | Audio Reading | Our Daily Bread Devotional | November 20, 2023
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🗓️ 20 November 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to today's encouragement from Our Daily Bread. |
| 0:09.0 | Our Reading titled Priceless Results was written by Alison Keita. |
| 0:15.0 | On every school day for three years, Colleen has been dressing up in a different costume or mask to greet her children |
| 0:22.6 | as they exit the school bus each afternoon. It brightens the day of everyone on the bus, including |
| 0:28.4 | the bus driver. She brings so much joy to the kids on my bus. It's amazing. I love that. Colleen's |
| 0:35.7 | children agree. It all started when Colleen began fostering children. |
| 0:40.7 | Knowing how difficult it was to be separated from parents and to attend a new school, |
| 0:45.7 | she began greeting the kids in a costume. After three days of doing so, the kids didn't want her to stop. |
| 0:52.8 | So Colleen continued. |
| 0:55.2 | It was an investment of time and money at thrift shops, |
| 0:58.6 | but as reporter Meredith Turhar describes, |
| 1:01.5 | it brought a priceless result. |
| 1:04.5 | Happiness. |
| 1:06.2 | One little verse amid a book of wise and witty advice, |
| 1:10.1 | largely by King Solomon to his son, |
| 1:12.7 | sums up the results of this mom's antics. From Proverbs 17, |
| 1:16.8 | A cheerful heart is good medicine, but a crushed spirit dries up the bones. By bringing cheer |
| 1:25.0 | to all her kids, she hoped to prevent crushed spirits. |
| 1:30.3 | The source of true and lasting joy is God through the Holy Spirit. |
| 1:35.3 | The Spirit enables us to shine God's light as we strive to bring joy to others, |
| 1:41.3 | a joy that offers hope and strength to face trials. |
| 1:51.0 | Today's Our Daily Bread Devotional Scripture reading is from Proverbs 17, verses 12 through 22. |
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