Love to Laugh

Laughter just has to make you smile; that's its job and why so many of us love it. Laughter is that thing that relieves stress and tension from your body at the end of, middle of or even the beginning of a really hard day. Laughter is the thing that lightens the mood in a room and draws a bridge back to you and the other person you are separated from. Laughter brings good friends together and is what makes some friends great ones. Laughter can ease the pain of a broken heart. Laughter brings joy to a marriage, a family and any other relationship I can imagine. Laughter makes the classroom vibrant and the students engaged. Laughter is just good for the soul. So if you haven't yet, take time to laugh to today.

Checklist

Teach a good lesson
Make dinner
Sin against my husband


Life is full of checklists and frequently we find ourselves checking the boxes we didn’t mean to check. I am a creature of checklists. I love them because checking things off gives me a sense of freedom. However, I daily find myself checking the box of sin, which only confines me. Today was one of those days, the kind where bad choices smack you in the face and you’re not sure what hit you. Well, I am sure of what hit me and worse I am sure that it hit my husband too, hard. I am convicted and humbled to admit that my mouth frequently gets me into trouble. And truly it’s not only my mouth, but the heart behind my mouth. My husband rightfully called me out on my criticism of him and I am ashamed to admit that I had to apologize for much worse. You see, I had to apologize for my critical words, but more than that I had to apologize for the reason behind my words: my disrespect of him. My disrespect that sometimes might derive from his actions/words, but often derives from my personal fears and idols in life. So, tonight I learned a valuable lesson: that we cannot hide from our sin or our idols in life. Our sin will flesh itself out in whatever we say and do. The thing that we value and hope in more than Christ himself will be revealed and we have two choices. We can deny that sin which is blatantly before us and continue to live in naïve pride or we can own up to our sinfulness and seek forgiveness, first from Christ than from the person we slapped in the face with the particular day’s checklist. Which box will you check?