Laugh Clown, Laugh

There is a bumper-sticker you might have seen that reads, “God is simply fun.” Not many of us, perhaps, are accustomed to thinking of God in that way. Yet… God is a God of Love, and a God of peace, and a God of joy. And isn’t that an accurate description of a God who is “simply fun?”

In times like ours it is so easy to get bogged down in a mood of despair. Problems all around us are so great, man’s inhumanity to man so shocking, that it is easy to see only the bad side of things and allow ourselves to be pulled down into a whirlpool of complaints and grief and hopelessness and despair.

People are complaining that the world is not only losing its energy, it is losing its mind. Kidnappings, highjackings, assassinations, massive political corruption! “What’s wrong with us?” people are asking. Almost every conversation, no matter where it starts, seems to end up in this kind of…