I am all for laughter. Crying gets old real quick. Both come to us all. I would rather laugh (altho there is healing in crying as well as hurting).

In earlier ages of the Church, the Sunday worship after Easter was often referred to as Laughter Sunday, since Easter Resurrection was God’s joke on the Devil who must have thought he won again on the Friday and Saturday before Sunday. The Church was encouraged to tell jokes and pull harmless pranks on each other the week after Easter to celebrate the fact that laughter wins out in the End over tears. Sounds good to my ears!

The scriptures for this Sunday are not exactly laugh out loud texts, but they have an almost breathless excitement about them that almost brings a smile. In John’s account, The Risen Lord appears to his Disciples and you can almost “see” the smiles on their faces. In Acts, Peter goes on about the excitement breaking out amongst the people knowing that the Spirit had descended upon them!

It’s almost like a dog! You know how a dog gets about almost everything you do with your canine:
“Throw ball!” My favorite thing!
“Chase that stick!” My favorite thing!
“Go for a car ride!” My favorite thing!
“Run with me!” My favorite thing!

The early church in the New Testament was bursting with excitement and probably everything they did, knowing Jesus was alive, was “their favorite thing!”
There was still plenty of difficult experiences ahead but they knew the final word was Divine Laughter not never ending tears.

Have a good Godly laugh this week!

Blessings †

Pastor Barry