God as Laugher. If you have any comments - adebelak@redeemerluth.com [mailto:adebelak@redeemerluth.com]God as laughter means that God keeps sticking with us. The option to that is a god
who destroys us. That is not our God. The god that destroys and the god that sends
fire and horror on the world is not our God. Our God laughs at the ways we turn
and go in the opposite direction. Laughter shows a God who understands us - knows
that we will try to do what we want even when it is quite contrary to the life God
hands us each day. I often ask 'what is the Good News' in this or that story in
Scripture. This is especially the case in those passages that seem to show God as
'angry as hell.' I would like to also ask, "where is the laughter" - can we see
our God in the middle of some of those confusing texts as the God who is able to
run after us like a parent who sees his/her child running off to 'get into something'?
That parent usually is thinking - she's going to fall - he's going to stumble down
the steps - she's going to trip over her shoe laces. We see what is in store for
our children - yet (at least for me) there is laughter. The laughter is part of
the 'I am with you always - you little knucklehead.' God as laughter is with us
through the stumbling and bumbling as the one who loves even when it seems more
sensible to be angry as hell.
O God of love and new life, wrap us up again with your love that knows we are so
good at going the wrong way and tripping over ourselves. Amen.
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