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The Holy Spirit and humor


is no coincidence that the Holy Spirit has inspired the Bible more than an amusing episode. He is ultimately responsible for passages such as exasperated that the donkey speaks to Balaam, Samson who get caught in the riddle when his enemies "plowed with his heifer," Jonah irritated to death by ricin to be dried or dead of laughter Sara to hear that going to be a mother being so old. With a smile we see the malice of the man born blind, the cleverness of the steward and the acrobatics of Zacchaeus. All this comes from Joy Manager of God, that spirit intelligent, subtle, mobile, lucid, penetrating, that can do everything and all is attentive (Wisdom 7.22).

You, Christian, and even more so if you are religious, your mood can pave the way for the Spirit to make you give away your joy. For example, you'll be happy if you take yourself too seriously, if you let the attack, if you take away from yourself and you associate with the aggressor to laugh with him about your own situation . He will be confused and you'll see your anger evaporate. Community life, something that's priceless. If someone destroys something you hold dear, material or spiritual, if you away you thought that to be entitled, in any way try to disminuirte, take advantage of this unique moment to access the "perfect joy "St. Francis of Assisi lived, happy when he was humiliated and stripped of their cargo. Good thing you have removed this or that aura, this or that comfort or you have some hidden wound inflicted inside! That's your salary, there is your true dignity. Poor man humiliated, mocked or beaten! What a fun little you look! But that's your natural size. Look to your teacher when he knelt to wash the feet of his disciples, look how tall! Look at it later when they laugh loudly at him and dress like a king of operetta.

humor you have yourself as an object is called humility . Humor is a healthy you, your brother heals, healing the environment. When you say, you're wrong!, What evil you have done!, Leaving that job, that place, no good for nothing!, Can you laugh by saying: "Have you rightly do not know how much truth thank ? And if what you say is not true, is even more fun. They are wrong, therefore there is no room for bitterness.

need a good dose of humor to accept you when everything is dark and also the prayer and desire for God. So you have to sit still, silent, like guessing in the dark there lurks the Lord. There you can think like John, "Is the Lord." And you say, "Again shut up and you hide, but I do not fool me. Stop playing hide and seek, or want to keep playing. I'll be waiting, dreaming, smiling, knowing that You are with me always . " Need more humor if the mission does not work. Apostolic our failures may lead to dance like Zorba the Greek, when it drops its construction. If you had put all of you and fail, laugh, because that laughter is a way to accept the Will of God. Your laughter will rise between the celestial choirs, to the throne of the Almighty, who can hardly contain his giggles saying, "And this would evangelize the world !"

The Holy Spirit is playful wind passing through stories and continents, leaving nothing in its place, nothing static. Everything begins to move to advance and converge forward route to the Great Banquet. If you cultivate the mood of the Spirit will have a good preparation for the Feast . In the banquet hall and we get some laughs ...
... are heralding the joy that never ends! :)

(Paul Fontaine SSCC)