Laughter

Marcos Witt, the Spanish-language pastor at Joel Osteen's enormous Lakewood Church in Houston, Texas, USA (weekly attendance around 40,000 people), recently said, "Laughter is the brush that sweeps away the cobwebs of the heart."

When was the last time you had a really good laugh?

Sometimes it's easy to think that as Christ followers we are supposed to be sober, straight-faced, and serious all of the time, but that's not so. Sarah laughed when God told her that, at about age 90, she'd soon be having a baby (I think any 90-year-old woman would laugh at that). Sarah then named her new baby boy Isaac, which means "he laughs." In Ecclesiastes, Solomon writes about how there is a time to laugh. And in Psalm 2 it says that even God laughs up in heaven. Maybe He's a fan of old Marx Brothers movies or Abbott & Costello's "Who's On First?" routine.

Laughter is good for the soul - your soul. Laugh more. It's a divine prescription for better physical and spiritual health.

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