Laughter Exercises In Church:
A Devotional Approach To God

How can a mind that is gloomy and dull, love? And isn't God all about Love? We observe with great joy how more and more religious / spiritually minded people around the nation are taking laughter to heart and bringing it to their church / temple / synagogue.

"A merry heart doeth good like a medicine." -- Proverbs 17:22

"God has a smile on His face." -- Psalm 42:5

He that is of a merry heart has a continual feast. -- Proverbs 15:15

"I commend mirth." -- Ecclesiastes 8:15

"Let your heart be merry." -- Judges 19:6

"Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth; break forth into joyous song and sing praises!" —Psalm 98:4

• Pastor Laura Gentry flew to California in November 2006 to train with us as a Certified Laughter Yoga Leader and started shortly after the Lansing Laughter Club in Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Lansing, Iowa (population 1200). She shared with us how well received her initiative had been. [read more]
  
  
• Reverend Sam Trumbore, of First Unitarian Universalist Society in Guilderland, Texas, wanted to try something new for the first Sunday of the New Year, and his Sunday morning service had the congregation in stitches. Literally. [read more]
  
  
• Diana Copsey says the Denver Laughter Club that meets at the First Unitarian Church has changed her life. "I've never found anything that released the central pain and ache I had," she said. "It was the thing that allowed me to give up perfectionism. It freed me." [read more]
  
  
• People meet every Friday night at Pilgrim Congregational Church in Oak Park (Illinois) just to laugh. [read more]
  

“I’m surprised how quickly our laughter club has taken off. It’s a good ice-breaker for people to get to know one another. It’s such a fantastic outreach that it’s hardly a laughing matter.” -- Don Thran, Our Savior's Lutheran Church

"It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes." -- St. Thomas Aquinas

Humor is a prelude to faith and laughter is the beginning of prayer. -- Reinhold Niebuhr

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