Does God laugh?
Does God have fun?
Christians talk about joy, and love, and delight and even pleasure. But what about humor?
Does God play practical jokes? Did Jesus? There sure would be a lot of opportunites with all those new disciples out of their comfort zones, trying to be "spiritual" like their master, perhaps overly zealous, etc., etc. When we was hanging out with prostitutes and tax collectors, did Jesus ever start a conversation with: "So this guy walks into a bar. . ." And did Jesus ever laugh so hard he started crying, or pulled a muscle, or even wet himself?
And does God feel anything when I laugh?
We never live, or laugh, in a vacume. We always laugh in relation to something: an amusing situation, an absurd behavior, a silly comment, an odd feeling. So is laughter then essentially unifying? Or, becuase it causes us to let go, to relax, does it create a moment of boundary-less-ness? Where you forget yourself. Could laughter be a form of self-transcendance, a type of "denying ourselves," that Jesus calls us to?
God sees things exactly as they are. Can laughter give us a taste of this clear seeing--a clarity where we relax into the present moment with all it's joy or levity or absurdity?
God is described as spirit. And spirit is often linked with breath. So what is the relationship between laughter and the movement of breath and the dynamic movement of God in and through our lives?
