Tonight I get to do “stand up” in front of a group of parents at our conference in Virginia Beach who are caring for kids from hard places. I love to laugh — and I love to make people laugh — and we have survived the last 22 years by laughing. A lot. In fact, I share with folks that this has been the secret to our survival — being able to see the humor in so much of what we’ve been through.
In fact, even this past couple weeks we have been able to find ways to laugh in the midst of it all.
I shared the end of this Psalm with you a couple days ago.
Here’s how it begins:
When the Lord restored the fortunes of Zion,
we were like those who dream.
2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with shouts of joy;
then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
3 The Lord has done great things for us;
we are glad.
we were like those who dream.
2 Then our mouth was filled with laughter,
and our tongue with shouts of joy;
then they said among the nations,
“The Lord has done great things for them.”
3 The Lord has done great things for us;
we are glad.
Finding things to be thankful for and reasons to laugh and to recognize God’s goodness in the middle of the mess, whatever you’re going, through is always an option.
In fact, the very fact that God rescued us, changed us, redeemed us, saved us, forgave us, transformed us, …. that’s worthy of joy and laughter in and of itself.
So find something that makes you laugh today….
Maybe this will. You don’t have to read it — but here’s a glimpse into what life was like when I wasn’t representing anyone but myself when I blogged. This is one of the more appropriate entries I found when looking this morning and it was during the time when we had a bunch of teenagers who were not doing legal things. It was a dark time, but we still found lots of things to laugh about. Here are a few of them. Enjoy the memories. I sure did.
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