The Inspirational Lesson of Cheerfulness
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Summary
Listen to episode 1060 of the Inspirational Living podcast: Be of Good Cheer. Edited and adapted from The Blessing of Cheerfulness by James Russell Miller.
Inspirational Podcast Excerpt: Everyone carries an atmosphere about them. It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. It may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better, safer place to live in. Or it may make it harder for those to live worthily and beautifully who dwell within its circle. We are responsible for this atmosphere.
Our influence may be involuntary in its final effect. We cannot wholly change it from evil to good on any particular day by a mere volition. It is something that belongs to our personality. It is an emanation from our character; and our character is the growth of all our years, what has been built up in us by all the lessons, experiences, impressions, and influences of life, from childhood.
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| 1:40.3 | Today's reading was edited and adapted from The Blessing of Cheerfulness by James Russell Miller, published in 1895. |
| 1:58.0 | There are many ways in which we may bless others. |
| 2:03.2 | For example, a ministry of helpfulness is a perpetual benediction. |
| 2:10.3 | One who feeds the hungry, visits and relieves the sick, the poor, and the orphan, |
| 2:21.7 | and comfort sorrow is a blessing to the world. |
| 2:27.1 | One who uses their money to do good is also a blessing. |
| 2:31.3 | But can one be a blessing merely by being cheerful? |
| 2:39.0 | Yes, joyful living exerts a silent influence for good. It is like a sweet flower by the wayside, which has been addiction for all who pass by. |
| 2:48.0 | Everyone carries an atmosphere about them. |
| 2:52.6 | It may be healthful and invigorating, or it may be unwholesome and depressing. |
| 2:59.6 | It may make a little spot of the world a sweeter, better safe place to live in, |
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