Charlie Chaplin once said, "A day without laughter is a day wasted."
And there's plenty to laugh about if we take a pause from the drama of the day-to-day and take a look around.
Blogger JoHannah Reardon says there's evidence of God's sense of humor all around us — otters, dolphins, penguins. And in the Bible, she writes, we find amusing verses, like Hebrews 11:12, "Therefore there was born even of [Abraham], and him as good as dead at that, as many descendants as the stars in heaven."
When I need a good laugh, I always turn to the Song of Solomon. You'll see why here.
Anyway, we asked our panelists about this.
VIEWPOINTS: How important is having a sense of humor to your faith? Does your creator have a sense of humor?
Alice_Wondering | Oct 22, 2012 | 4:22pm
I’ve heard it said that imagination was given to us to compensate for what we are not, and a sense of humor given by the Great One to us to console us for what we are. Be that as it may, good humor, I think, acts like a restorative and stimulant for mind and body. It acts like an antidote for anxiety and depression; it most definitely attracts and keeps good friends around, and it lightens our burdens—whatever they are. It is, I suspect, a direct route to serenity and contentment.
You can call it “emotional chaos remembered in tranquillity,” if you like. Some say it is a universal language, as all of us humans in every land employ it, but however you define it, it truly is a serious thing. As it is certainly is one of our greatest natural resources that has resided in us stretching all the way back to the dawn of memory, and, I believe, must be preserved whatever the cost.
Ya, think? :)
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