Thursday, April 11, 2002
Thursday, April 11, 2002
"Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh.
That's one good reason to go through life with a sense of humor. During the Depression there
were people who jumped out of windows. There were others far worse off who laughed their
troubles away.
For example, those were the days of the great dustbowl in the Midwest part of our country.
Farms and fortunes were literally being blown away. How did some people cope? With humor.
One man said that during the thirties the Midwest was so dry that when "one man was hit on
the head by a raindrop, he was so overcome that two buckets of sand had to be thrown in his
face to revive him." Someone else said he talked to a motorist who saw a ten-gallon hat on a
dust drift. He picked it up and found a head under it. "Can I give you a ride to town?" the
motorist asked the protruding head. "Thanks, but I'll make it on my own," the head answered.
"I'm on a horse."
Keeping laughing. What do you think God's does when he looks at us?
(Luke 6.21
NRSV)
It's one thing to have the flu. You know that it will pass. It's another to have a disease
diagnosed as terminal. It's one thing to be 25 and lose your job, it's another to be on the verge
of retirement and lose everything you own. It's one thing to have a lover's tiff, it's another to
watch a marriage of 25 years go down the tubes. Some setbacks heal very slowly--some not at
all.
Dear God, thank you for the gift of laughter that helps us to cope. Amen.
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