As
Christians, we are people of the resurrection, therefore we are people who love
to laugh, who believe that laughter is a wonderfully life-giving, defiant act
full of the grace of God. Easter is that which enables us to keep going, even
in our moral failures, even when being a servant of the Word is difficult. Those
who have kept at the Christian ministry longer than I will confirm the
essential virtue of humor… The ability to laugh at life's incongruities, to
take God seriously but not ourselves, to embrace the strangeness of [other]
people instead of strangling them to death with our bare hands -- this is great
grace… Humor is the grace to put our problems in perspective,… to be reminded
that Jesus really did need to save us, seeing as we have so little means to
save ourselves. Humor is just a glimpse, on a human scale, of the way God looks
upon us from God's unfathomable grace. By the resurrection, the gospel is
enabled to be comedy and not tragedy.
--
William Willimon
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