Laughter is Good Medicine
This morning we were discussing laughter and humor over the wafting smell of bacon frying in our cast iron skillet. Let’s just say it was a glorious moment in time. I was reading funny Spurgeon quotes to Jason after a friend shared a quote this week that made my heart glad. “There are difficulties in everything except in eating pancakes.” I’ve said many times that laughter is good medicine. Yet, laughter has often felt so difficult to come by. There are so many aching realities within and surrounding us. How could we welcome or indulge in laughter when our hearts are in agony? Let’s be real, forcing laughter is phony, an evasive front without the provision of any real relief, but laughter does produce some mysteriously therapeutic wonderment within. So how do we get there? I am finding that looking outside of myself, staying there and lingering for a long while, can often produce laughter. Sometimes the simplicity of wondering over life, nuances, quirks, lan