I’m not sure if laughter is the best medicine. I’m fairly certain it’s very good. (I write this while still getting over laughing at the movie Airplane – that is a hilarious film.)
It’s good because in a moment of the purest laughter free of malice and cynicism there is a release of something positive and refreshing to yourself and everyone around. I love laughter. I love hearing people laugh and I love making people laugh. (Not in that sort of way – be serious when I’m talking about laughter.)
Someone referred me to Ecclesiastes and a few other references that suggested being serious and mournful was better that lightness and laughter. I know one or two curmudgeonly folks who would rejoice in a sombre manner at such verses. Yet I am also fairly certain the life we are to live in Christ and what we have to look forward to eternally will not be of the sort that some strait-laced killjoys would want us to accept.
No, joy in the Lord is not a perpetual smile on your face with the glee that is about to burst into another verse of ‘A Little More Oil In My Lamp Keep Me Burning’. Yet that joy I do believe every now and then in the company of believers and co-sojourners leads to those moments of irrepressible laughter, back-slapping and gasping for breath at those things that bring out that kind of laughter. Yeah we can cry at some things, there is a place for that, but surely after laughing at other things you don’t just feel better, you feel like even the worst that can happen will not eliminate the freedom of that joyous moment.
Have a laugh on me.
For His Name’s Sake
Shalom
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