Originally written by Dr Brewster M. Higley of Smith County, Kansas as part of a poem entitled My Western Home, back in the early 1870s, the line "Where seldom is heard a discouraging word," is familiar as part of the song Home On the Range. Around here we borrow from that idea but state it in the positive: Often is heard an encouraging word!
Why not? It is so uplifting to raise others up too. Speaking to cheer or to console or simply to refresh is such a positive experience - it warms your heart! Besides, who needs all the negativity? There is certainly enough of that in the news every day. How much more rewarding it is to see the good in our world and to encourage more of it!
I really like looking our at the beauty and the positive energy in our world. Dr Higley's poem has another very uplifting line later on too. He writes
"How often at night, when the heavens were bright,
With the light of the twinkling stars
Have I stood here amazed, and asked as I gazed,
If their glory exceed that of ours."
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