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If you can cut through the noise of New Age vendors peddling their latest fads in Vanity Fair you will find that God gave us a great circuit-breaker: laughter. Indeed something to laugh about.

Besides what a chuckle can do to your body it has some profound ramifications for our soul. Recently a woman was instantly healed of a chipped bone in her knee at a John Mellor healing service and she laughed out of control under the power of the Holy Spirit.

God is interested in stretching us to build up our faith. The soul kicks up a fuss demanding reasons and logical explanations. God wants us to laugh with Him at our pitiful frame of mind.

Humour has its victims. It's great to laugh at political figures in a satirical magazine but don't try it on your spouse or children unless you have their consent. Too much teasing and you can ruin a relationship. The best jokes are the shortest. The best pranks are those where the victim chooses to laugh too.

So why do we take ourselves too seriously? What prevents us from laughing at ourselves? Probably pride and a misplaced sense of self-worth.

How do comedians come up with their one-liners? The ability to look at the same reality as us with a different set of eyes.

One ingredient missing in many people's lives is joy. Being one of the three tenets of Christian living (love, joy, peace), joy allows us to see a situation from a higher plane.

Humour occurs when we identify the plight of someone else bound by fears we do not have. Seeing a woman standing on a table, armed with a broomstick and screaming is laughable when you consider her ordeal was caused by a little rodent escaping from the pantry.

She might not enjoy your delight as you witness her time of distress. If you depend on her to raise your children and cook your meal you might have to go into damage control.

For her the breakthrough would come when she realises how her reaction is overbearing compared to the threat of a mouse. You could earn some brownie points by buying her a cat.

How can we so readily laugh at others but not at ourselves? There must be some spiritual mirror out there that could disclose our condition to ourselves. In fact there is indeed such a book inspired by our Maker. It's called the Bible and it is full of epics, poetry, adventures, treatises. It's God's love letter to mankind where He shares with us a piece of His mind about our pitiful behaviour. It is good reading in case you don't know what sort of mouse you are going to encounter next.

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