“On Laughing at Your Own Fool Self”
“Prov. 15:15 All the days of the afflicted are evil,
but the cheerful of heart has a continual feast.” (English Standard Version)
I ran out of ideas just now for this blog, so I said a quick prayer: “Help!” God answered the prayer immediately, but God’s prompting wasn’t all that “spiritual” (whatever that is). Instead, God reminded me of a funny, stupid thing I did last night.
My sweetheart was coming back home after being away for several days taking care of her mom. I missed her so much! I shaved and showered and dressed up a bit. I got her a bouquet of flowers. I even vacuumed downstairs. Aren’t I sweet!
We met at Kroger to get gas for our two cars and three five-gallon gas cans with our Kroger fuel points. Afterward, I hopped in my wife’s car, so that we could go out to a fine dining establishment—Sonic. After we had enjoyed way too many delicious calories, we went home.
After we had parked her car in the garage, it hit me: We had forgotten to go by Kroger to pick up my car!
It wasn’t really a big deal. The Kroger store in only about three miles from our house. I just shook my head and laughed at my fool self.
But here is the thing: Not so long ago, I would not have laughed. I would have been terribly angry with myself over this kind of thing. I would have called myself all kinds of unkind names. I would have thought that this incident was the summarizing of my entire life. I would have seriously dampened my wife’s joy at being home.
But, I didn’t. And if I am willing to laugh at myself, I can have a continual feast. I continued feasting this morning, because of another silly thing I did.
At the beginning of this post, I thought of the verse that leads off the post, Proverbs 15:15. However, I couldn’t remember where it was found. Somewhere in Proverbs; I was sure of that much. When my smart phone game me the answer to my question about a nanosecond after I had asked it, I had to laugh out loud. I had listened to chapter 15 of Proverbs on my You Version app about an hour ago. I call myself an Old Testament guy? And let’s face it: A body ought to be able to remember a scriptural reference like “Proverbs 15:15”.
Again I say unto thee, sometimes you just have to laugh at your own fool self! I hope you have a merry heart today, and a continual feast! May you do something mildly foolish today!
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