Dec 31st-2020: New Year's Wishes - Laughter

Is Laughter The Best Medicine? - Capitol Communicator

Today is the last day of 2020. Maybe it is time to laugh so that we can get ready for 2021. Laughter sometimes helps us regain our perspective on life. Let us pray many things we have accepted in 2020; will not need to be there in 2021. Here are a few jokes I have been able to gather:


Why did the chicken cross the road?

Because the cook doesn't observe social distancing protocol (not a joke for vegans).


One mother was bragging to another mother about her son who is away in college: "My son is so good at social distancing. He doesn't call me anymore."


We used to hear that one cannot accomplish anything by lying in bed all day. Well, one can now save the world by doing the very same thing.


It Dawne on me that we ran out of soap and body wash.


The World Health Organization concluded that dogs could not contract Covid-19. All previously quarantined dogs need to be released. WHO let the dogs out.


My dog and I were having a great laugh when watching my neighbor talking to her cat.


Who needs a parrot while being quarantined with a talkative child?


"I wouldn't touch them with a six-foot pole" used to be an exaggeration. Now it is a national health policy.


Working from home has made "relaxing on the couch" impossible.


We are now leaving "the year of endearment" behind. We have learned much about ourselves and others. We will overcome all of the travesties of life with God's help. Indeed we will laugh and not just because we defeat Covid-19. We laugh when God reveals how He is going to deal with the foolishness of this world. Finally, we will learn to laugh at ourselves with some solemn reflection so that the world might become a better place for others.

 

Happy New Year!


Ecclesiastes 3: 4


"A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;"


Psalm 37: 13

"But the Lord laughs at the wicked, for he sees that his day is coming."

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