We’ll Laugh Together

God,

There was this time in my life when I could NOT laugh.

There was this time in my life when I couldn't get past the tears.

I was stuck.

Stuck looking up

At MYSELF on a cross.

 I’d been betrayed. I was wounded.

Now, I was letting myself die.

I was stuck at my own crucifixion.

But then You nudged me to look past myself

And I found others who needed me,

So You helped me to climb down off my cross

And this time when I looked up, I was no longer in the way.

I could see YOU.

My cross was empty.

I had witnessed my own Resurrection!

Because of YOU.

From deep inside…someplace deeper than where my tears live.

I guess the place where JOY that comes from YOU lives,

I felt something,

A surge,

A power.

It grew and

             It grew and

                          It grew

Until there it was…

...MY LAUGHTER.

                                         

             








I threw my head back and I laughed and I laughed

                                 
 And I looked up and

 I saw YOU.

And you too were laughing.

Give me the courage, God,

And the wisdom

To see beyond the tears to YOU.

We’ll laugh together.

Amen!  So be it!