“Rejoice in the Lord always….again I say rejoice!” (Phil 4:4)

“I grieve if my brother dies because I no longer have personal communion with him. But I can have a deep, abiding joy, for I know that death does not have the final word. It has been conquered in Christ’s death and resurrection.” (2 Tim. 1:10)

We are a people born of laughter!

Literally, we are all as Christians part of God’s holy people, in a covenant begun with Abraham and Sarah many years ago, when this elderly couple was granted an unexpected son. His name was Isaac, which means in Hebrew, laughter.

Why? Because when both Abraham and Sarah heard, they would be commissioned to be the parents of a people devoted to God by means of a post-menopausal pregnancy, …they laughed! Not out of mocking, not out of sarcasm, not out o…