* this month’s synchroblog is called lighten up: the art of laughter, joy, and letting go. the links to other bloggers writing on the same topics are below.
as always i am late to the party, been writing my brains out and traveling so my contribution is short and sweet. laughter is the only way i can survive down here in the muck and mire of real life. laughing at myself. laughing at irony. laughing at the dramedy (drama + comedy) that is the best way to describe our lives. fortunately, jose, my husband, makes me laugh every day and i am part of a community that values laughter, too. i am not sure that comes across in some of the intensity of what i write here, but we have a helluva of a lot of fun in the midst of all this darkness. in many ways, it’s the only way we survive.
laughter is so healing.
every day i need a little lightness. david hayward’s stuff makes me laugh out loud all the time. here’s my all-time favorite cartoon from him (i thought it was pretty appropriate for our rebuilding after deconstructing series):
and this one sort of fits, too. my friend jenny posted it last week with a little blurb about church. so funny and oh so true.
and i am not quite sure how you could possibly watch this and not have it be contagious, no matter how many times you might have already seen it.
have a great week. i hope you can find a way to laugh every day. it heals.
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other bloggers writing about this topic this month:
- Jeremy Myers at Till He Comes – Lighten Up!
- Maria Kettleson Anderson at My Real Journey – The Art of Passionately Lightening Up
- Melody Harrison at Logic and Imagination – {I Don’t Do Joy}
- Wendy McCaig – Lighten Up: Learning to Let Go From A Man Who Lost It All
- Carol Kuniholm at Words Half Heart – Resurrection Laughter
- R. Lee Bayes at Southern Humanist – Loving Light
- Alan Knox – Be Sarcastic With One Another
- Patrick Oden at Dueling Ravens – Truth, Beauty, and Yodeling Pickles
- Christine Sine at Godspace – Lighten Up: It Really is the Best Medicine
- Glenn Hager – Margaritas, Metallica, and A Serious Case of the Giggles.
- Liz Dyer at Grace Rules – A Spoonful of Sugar
- K.W. Leslie at More Christ – When Jesus Made A Funny
- Maurice Broaddus – Why So Serious?
- Ellen Haroutunian – A Laughing God