Rebecca's first memory verses

Rebecca can now say two Bible verses in their entirety. She has been obsessed with the Steve Green "Hide 'Em in Your Heart" songs and videos, and has started absorbing them more quickly than I expected. I thought her first memory verse might be something short and simple, like "God is love" (I John 4:8). But, nope, her first two verses are much longer, and, I think, keeping with her personality.

The first one was "A joyful heart is good medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones" (Proverbs 17:22). She asks me to sing that one multiple times a day, and most times, my heart is not that joyful, and I'm tempted to retort back to her, "He who blesses his friend with a loud voice early in the morning, it will be reckoned a curse to him" (Proverbs 27:14); and although this happens at various times of the day, it always feels like early in the morning to me, since I am so tired all the time; but I usually lighten up after seeing how much she likes the song.

Her second memory verse is also very convicting for me: "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control...since we live by the Spirit, let us keep in step with the Spirit" (Galatians 5:22-23a, 25). This was one of my first memory verses, too, but somehow it doesn't seem like it's gotten much easier to apply in all these years. The way things are going at this point, I hope Rebecca rubs off more on me than I do on her!