A Time To Laugh

I love the book of Eccle­si­astes. It is a book of human exper­i­ments. In brief, Solomon is try­ing to find ulti­mate mean­ing and hap­pi­ness from his own efforts. In the end, he dis­cov­ers that respect­ing God with great awe, and fol­low­ing his prin­ci­ples is the only way to real human hap­pi­ness. In this same book, there is a beau­ti­ful lit­tle poem of appro­pri­ate­ness, and it includes the line that says, “There is a time to weep, and a time to laugh…”
I really like this com­fort­ing phrase. Every­thing has its appro­pri­ate time or sea­son, and for as many rea­sons that we have to cry, we have as many or more to laugh. Though I am per­ceived as one that tends toward the lat­ter, at heart I am equally the first. The great­est come­di­ans are actu­ally wounded peo­ple with a huge con­science and a high enough IQ to see the many inequities and injus­tices in every­day life. From the loss of ideals we come to the cross­roads in which we either laugh or cry.
Yes, I pre­fer to laugh. Laugh­ter is the res­o­lu­tion of the impos­si­ble. Humor and wit belong to those one step ahead of despair. Laugher is deep­est among the pro­found. The uni­verse itself is such a mix­ture of the pos­si­ble and the impos­si­ble, that you have to laugh a lit­tle at its extremes. The mir­a­cle is that we laugh or cry at all. God made us like him­self — with a range of emo­tions to feel and man­age the mate­r­ial world and being itself.
Of all of the lan­guages of the world, laugh­ter is my favorite. That is one lan­guage that we all can speak together, as we embrace the fool­ish­ness and foibles of life. Per­son­ally, I like watch­ing foreign-made com­mer­cials on You Tube. I par­tic­u­larly like Thai and Indian humor. The French are funny too — as well as the Swedes and the British, but I like the comedic East most of all.
You are prob­a­bly look­ing at some really impos­si­ble messes today. Smile, it is time to get an early start on han­dling it all with some humor.