"Laughing feels better right now."

I am currently reading Streams of Mercy by Mark Rutland* and in the book, Rutland highlights how at times, we are unable to have mercy on ourselves. Life tends to jolt us with pain and struggles. Most times, we feel lost. As if we’re just wandering and hoping to leave a mark in this world.

 I’m a wanderer as well. I’m about to embark into my mid 20s and I’m still figuring it out. But maybe that is life, trusting God and figuring it out as you go.

 Rutland says that sometimes you have to look at the problems in your life and laugh. Absolve them and laugh. I love to laugh. I love those heaving chuckles that hurt your stomach and bring tears to your eyes. I love when you see something that is funny and a friend sees it too and you just burst out laughing. No words are necessary.  I love catching smiles from strangers. I love laughing at movies and quoting them for the rest of the week. I love meeting people with the same humor as me. I love watching kids laugh. I love how easy it is to make kids laugh. They know not the cares of this life, and that is so precious. I love watching my grandparents laugh because they have known the cares of this life and they laugh anyways. So find someone who makes you laugh today and just laugh. Be the cause of laughter for someone else. Watch a funny video or movie. Watch other people laugh because laughing is contagious. 

Psalms 126:2- Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then they said among the nations, "The Lord has done great things for them."

Proverbs 15:13- A glad heart makes a cheerful face, but by sorrow of heart the spirit is crushed.

Psalms 63:5-7- My soul will be satisfied as with fat and rich food, and my mouth will praise you with joyful lips, when I remember you upon my bed, and meditate on you in the watches of the night; for you have been my help, and in the shadow of your wings I will sing for joy.

"The men whom I have seen succeed best in life have always been cheerful and hopeful men, who went about their business with a smile on their faces, and took the changes and chances of this mortal life like men, facing rough and smooth alike as it came." -Charles Kingsley

"Joy is the serious business of Heaven." -C.S. Lewis

*Amazon link

http://www.amazon.com/Streams-Mercy-Receiving-Reflecting-Grace/dp/0892839988/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361808101&sr=1-2&keywords=streams+of+mercy