by Joanne Wiklund
Tomorrow will be my sister’s birthday. We were talking about it last week and she remarked about how long we’d been together. We really have. Even though we are so different in personality, it is a sisterhood I value so much. Having someone you know so well and who knows you so well is wonderful. But my sis has an “added attraction.”
She loves to laugh. It’s an inherited trait in our family which has carried over into the generations following our parents. They were most of the time, optimistic and fun loving people. Our mother’s family were all people who loved to laugh, and generally, never minded when someone poked fun at them. Being together with aunts, uncles and cousins made for fun.
Disagreements? Not many. Opinions, oh my yes. Debate was our father’s middle name. He could start a debate with you over a topic and identify your side and his side too. Then you went at it. But somehow, somewhere along the way, you would wake up to the fact that he had made you switch sides. He was then arguing your opinion and you his. Crafty, that man. But loving too. Mom would just shake her head and go cook something for everybody.
Laughter is so important to me. I think we sometimes take ourselves so seriously that laughter is frowned on. Laughter does good things for your body. Especially if you laugh so hard you’re shaking all over. The fact may have been that entertainment at their time in this world was from people like Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, Jerry Lewis, Milton Berle, Caroll Burnett. If you don’t know those people, just look them up on YouTube, watch and listen. Listen and get ready to laugh.
Psalms 37:12,13,34. “The wicked plotted against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth. 13. The Lord shall laugh at him: for he seeth that his day is coming. 34. Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall exalt thee to inherit the land: when the wicked are cut off, thou shalt see it.”