All I Can Do Is Laugh......

   And After All...'Laughter Is The Best Medicine.' We Are All Human. We All Feel Pain. And We All Feel Joy. No Life Lives Without Joy & Laughter. Much Like A Flower Without Water. It Or Us Will Eventually Wither And Die.
  Do You Know Why Your Body Actually Laughs? It's Because The Mind Focuses So Intently On An Idea Or Thought, That The Respiratory System/Lungs, Forget To Breath And Go Into Convulsive Spasms Trying To Find Their Rhythm Again.The Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortex Gets Activated And Releases Endorphins, That 'Feel Good' Chemical That Trips Our Switches From Sad To Glad.
   The Link Between Laughter And Our Little Blood Vessels Has Been Proven In 2005 By The Wonderful Scientists At University Of Maryland Medical Center. They Found That The Exercise Of Laughter Caused The Inner Lining Of Your Blood Vessels, Called The Endothelium, To Dilate And Increase The Rate Of Blood Flow. It Reduces Cortisol And Epinephrine In The Metabolic System.
   These Are Those Cute Little Chemicals That Cause Us So Much Stress Each Day And Force Us To Play Video Games. Or Overeat Our Daily Allotment Of Sugary Doughnut Delights And Confectionaries, Ala 'Tim's Bits', Or That Half Gallon Of Double Fudge Brownie Ice Cream, That Plaintively Cries Out Our Names Behind The Frozen Wasteland Of Our Double Door Samsung. We Crave That Release. But, I Digress...(Always Wanted To Use That Word!)
   Laughter is A Gift Given By The Father. It Deflects Anger, Softens Our Visage And Makes Hard Times Easier. Many Memories I Have Were Not Pleasant. A Lot Of Them At The Time Were Very Painful. But Over The Years After Finding Humor Somehow Through The Situations, The Scars Eventually Heal. Emotionally, Mentally And Physically. Through Finding a Reason To Laugh Over The Years No Matter The Trials, Is How I've Survived.
   Years ago, I Was A Professional Clown. It Was How I Dealt With My Own Pain and Sadness. By Making Others Laugh. Breaking The Social Norms Of The Day, By The License Of a Greasepaint Mask and A Pratfall Or 2, Pointing The Finger At My/Our Human Foibles And Faults. Making Others Laugh With Me Instead Of At Me. It Was On My Terms That Others Would Laugh At My Expense Then. Yet My Laughter At The Time Was Hollow, With No True Source Of Joy To Come From. And Then I Met a Man Named Jesus.
   He Showed Me That The Pain And Ache Of This Life Would Eventually Pass As Things Do, And In The Scope Of Eternity, It Was Only The Blink Of An Eye. He Showed Me That By Looking Ahead And Laughing Off The Situations That Happened To Me, No Matter How Bad, Would Ease The Temporary Pain And Discomfort Of This Life And Would Strengthen And Restore Life To Me.
   In The Book Of James In The Bible, Whichever Version You Prefer, It Says In The First Chapter, Verse 2-4, To "Count It All Joy, My Brothers, When You Meet Trials Of Various Kinds, For You Know The Testing Of Your Faith Produces Steadfastness. And Let Steadfastness Finish It's Perfect Work, So That You Might Be Mature And Complete, Not Lacking Anything."
  I Think By Joy, He Meant Laughing Through The Trials. Why? Because They Just Make Us Stronger And Wiser. And If They Come Again, You Can Laugh That Much Harder In Victory Because You Weren't Defeated The First Time And Only Became Stronger. The Problem Shrinks To Being Nothing. If You Don't, The Problem Looms Over You, Threatening To End Your Life Everyday.
   To Quote Dr. Madan Kataria, "I Have Not Seen Anyone Dying Of Laughter, But I Know Millions Who Are Dying Because They Are Not Laughing."
   Jesus Showed Me How To Laugh Once Again And Live. And Everyday He Shows Me Something New They I Haven't Seen Or Realized. He's Good Like That. and Whenever I Have Those Days Where I Don't Think He Sees Or Hears Me, Some Little Miracle Will Show Up To Show Me That He Still Sees Everything. See, He Knows A Lot More Than We Could Ever Possibly Imagine, Because He's Been Through That Pain Himself. And He Persevered And Went Through It For The Joy He Knew Would Come Out Of It. Just Like A Mother Going Through Labor Pains Before Finally Giving Birth To Her Bundle Of WHAT?.... Joy.
   So, You See, That's Why My Blog Is Named The Laughs On Us. Because We Only See A Portion Of What's Here and What He Has For Us. That's Why The Laughs On Us......
   Give Your Heart To Him Today And Let Him Change Your Life Into Joy.
   ......<3'n Jesus Always,k.
 
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