Here’s a prayer from Bruce Prewer which would be
especially appropriate on Holy Humor Sunday (the first Sunday after
Easter).
Prayer
O holy Source of laughter, thank you for giving us the
gift.
For all things harmlessly quaint, incongruous and
unexpectedly absurd:
for pomposity that
falls on its face,
for children chuckling
over a riddle,
for lovers enjoying
each others quirks of character,
for cartoonists
‘sending up’ political arrogance,
for explorers cracking
jokes in the face of danger,
for the terminally ill
who laugh with their nurses,
for the saints who
throw laughter into the jaws of evil.
For Jesus and his quirky sayings;
the camel attempting to
squeeze through the eye of a needle.
the man with a plank in
his eye
who tries to shift a speck from a neighbour’s eye.
the woman who bakes
bread for her family 100 kilos of it!
the man (having a
‘senior’s moment’?) who lights a lamp,
only to put it under a bed.
the dead who want to bury the dead,
the woman who on
finding one lost coin, throws a party,
For the New Testament faith that can laugh because it
knows
nothing can cut us off from the love of Christ
“neither a host of
troubles nor deep distress,
neither persecution nor
starvation,
neither nakedness,
peril nor sword,
not anything in life or
in death,
will be able to
separate us
from the love of God
in Christ Jesus our
Lord.”
O holy Source of laughter, thank you for giving us the
gift,
and for the faith and hope that allows us to employ it
to the full.
We laugh because you first laugh on our behalf.
Thanks a million!
Amen.
~
written by Bruce Prewer, and posted on Bruce Prewer’s Prayers for Sojourners page. http://www.bruceprewer.com/b_sojournes.htm
