Most people today find very little in life to laugh about. With the economic recession, which has affected us all, life has taken on a more serious note. Guideposts magazine once quoted Zazu Pitts as saying; “Laughter is God’s hand upon a troubled world.” If the saying is true that ‘Laughter is the Best Medicine’ then we need to learn to laugh more.
Grenville Kliester wrote in the New York Inquirer; “What this country needs is not a new national anthem, or a Wall Street boom, but the ability to laugh spontaneously.” There was a time when you could go to the movies and expect to leave the theater having laughed ‘till your sides split.’ But not many movies are made like that today. With some movies, you come out more despondent then when you went in.
I don’t claim to have any solutions to our present day circumstances. I’m not sure that anyone can solve the American dilemma which we face today. I’m almost certain that man does not have the moral fortitude to do what needs to be done. Man’s moral character is corrupted by sin. As the Apostle Paul observed in the 7th chapter of Romans. “For the good that I will to do, I do not do; but the evil I will not to do, that I practice.” (v.20)
Laughter, in and of itself, will not cure the world’s ills. But I believe the ability to laugh comes from a right relationship with God. And with that, we can, GO AHEAD AND LAUGH!
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