I want You should stop being such a comedian. Nobody’s going to believe a word in here if
You keep being such a comedian.
Listen to this. I’ve got the pot calling the kettle black here.
Okay, have we gotten it out of our systems now? Can we get back to the book?
If you insist.
I’d like to know about the Five Attitudes of God—one of which was not, I notice, “hilarious.”
Maybe it should have been.
Will You stop?
No, I’m serious. People have this idea that God is never humorous, cannot laugh, and that
everybody has to act very sacred around the Divine. I wish you would all lighten up a bit. All
of you. Laugh at yourself. Someone once said, “You grow up the day that you have a good
laugh at yourself.”
Don’t take yourself so seriously. Give yourself a little slack. And while you’re at it, give each
other a little, too.
You want to know about the Five Attitudes of God? Take a look at the first one.
“Totally joyful.”
That is the First Attitude. Did you notice that? I listed that first.
So what are You saying?
I’m saying that it comes before anything else. It is what makes everything possible. Without
joy, there is nothing.
I’m saying that unless you get a little humor in your life, none of it is going to make any
sense. I’m saying that laughter is the best medicine. I’m saying that joy is good for the soul.
I’ll go further than that. joy is the soul. The soul is that which you would call joy. Pure joy.
Endless joy. Unadulterated, unlimited, unrestricted joy. That is the nature of the soul.
A smile is a window to your soul. Laughter is the door.
Oh, wow.
Wow, indeed.