Interviewing Reverend/Comedienne Susan Sparks for a profile for Ode Magazine was a real hoot! “Laughter is the GPS system of the soul,” says Sparks, who sometimes does stand-up with a Rabbi and devout Muslim comic, and always inserts gentle humor into her sermons. ”Humor offers a revolutionary yet simple spiritual paradigm. If you can laugh at yourself, you can forgive yourself. And if you can forgive yourself, you can forgive others. Laughter heals and grounds us in a place of hope. It fosters intimacy and honesty in our relationships with each other and with God. And isn’t that what grace is all about?”
What do you think? Does God have a sense of humor?
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“If you can laugh at yourself, you can forgive yourself.” I love how Susan says this and I love being reminded. It seems like when I can get past that part of me that takes the issue so seriously, I can laugh and once I can do that the perspective flows so naturally.
I enjoyed the interview/profile on Ode, too. Thanks.
Six weeks before my due-date, my water broke. We didn’t even own a carseat, and it seemed I was in labor. I put in a phone call to the OB’s office, but of course, they had left for the day, so following their vmail instructions, I called the hospital. They put me on hold for, I’m not kidding, 25 minutes. By this point I was sobbing.
I felt a damp dog nose on my arm. It was our black lab, presenting me, again I’m not kidding, with a bagel.
She had obviously stolen it off the counter, and for some reason she really wanted me to have it. I took the gnawed-upon, dog-spitty bagel and looked directly up to heaven, or the ceiling anyway, and shouted, “If you’re trying to tell me to lighten up, NOW IS NOT THE TIME.”
So, yeah, I think God has a sense of humor.
I definitely think God has a sense of humor. Otherwise, how could WE have it? If you believe as I do, we are born of His likeness. To me, it makes perfect sense, thank God!