I just finished watching these 3 videos about the value of humor in the Christian life. Very good stuff from Fr. James Martin, S.J. I actually saw James on the Colbert Report (which I don't watch regularly, just happened to see it) once. Anyway, check this 3-part deal out as he addressed a publishing convention. Very funny - good thing considering the subject matter. Many, many of us (Christians of whatever stripe) take ourselves MUCH too seriously. Laughing is far too foreign to us. These are helpful words for sourpusses. Peace and laughter.
"Then, if we cannot as yet think alike in all things, at least we may love alike. Herein we cannot possibly do amiss." John Wesley
"Keep your eyes on the crucifix, for Jesus without the cross
is a man without a mission, and the cross without Jesus
is a burden without a reliever." Fulton J. Sheen
"...I am deeply convinced that the Christian leader of the future is called to be
completely irrelevant and to stand in this world with nothing to offer but his or her own vulnerable self." Henri Nouwen
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