I’ve been thinking a lot about laughter lately. There was lots of laughter throughout everything tied
to our recent Yard Sale and Plant Sale, and with those proceeds going to our
General Mission Fund, our prayer is those funds will bring laughter to many
parts of the world where laughter is hard to come by.
Instead of laughter, what is heard is weeping.
Might the best way to measure a community’s health begins
by listening for laughter?
Something laughter and weeping have in common is they’re
both an emotional reaction.
A study was done by the University College London involving two groups of people; people living in Britain, and the Himba
tribe. The Himba live in an isolated part of Namibia with no electricity, no
running water, no formal education, and no contact with people from other
groups.
In the study, participants
listened to a short story based around a particular emotion. At the end of the
story they heard two sounds from the other group such as crying, and laughter.
They were asked to identify which of the two sounds reflected the emotion in
the story.
Researchers found
that basic emotions including amusement and sadness are among the most easily
recognizable -- and one positive sound was particularly well recognized by both
groups was laughter.
What if we imagined people very different from
us yet laughing like us…...and laughing with us as we laughed with them…
...and let that guide our every action?
Based on Scripture and based on science laughter
is the one emotion we all desire and the one language we all understand.
Join
us Sundays at 10AM as seek, and work, to make laughter very real for all.
Pastor
Mike
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