Humour is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer. - Reinhold Neibuhr
Humour is a prelude to faith? Is this because to find the humour in something, we have to believe things are either amusing or soon to be amusing? Is it a question of faith that things are good or will get better? And laughter is the beginning of prayer... ok. I'm not sure I know what this means. It feels good to laugh. It can make me feel better to pray. Maybe that is enough.
I have been out of my house for six days now with the renovations. I really want to go home. I can go home, now, renovation-wise, but I am at my parents' home, four hours and a ferry ride away from my place. And they have some things they would like to do with me while I am here. Sigh. I know when I go home the place will feel empty and I will miss having company. But when I have company -- as I do now -- for too long, I feel the call for quiet, for alone time, for solitude. It is so tiring to have people around. It is so lonely not to.
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