Posts Tagged: Proverbs 15:15

“On Laughing at Your Own Fool Self”

On November 15, 2020 by Dteb With 0 Comments - down to earth believer

“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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“Humor During a Serious Plague”

On March 25, 2020 by Dteb With 0 Comments - down to earth believer

“All the days of the oppressed are wretched,

but he cheerful heart has a continual feast.”  (Proverbs 15:15, New International Version)

Call it a “pandemic,” or call it by an old-fashioned name like a “plague,” or call it macaroni, if you like.  This coronavirus outbreak is a serious matter.  It needs to be treated as such.  In fact, it is well past serious. It left serious in the rearview mirror weeks ago.  It is now downright grim, and likely to become much grimmer.

However, even in times like these, humor is important.  Perhaps especially in times like these, humor is essential.

So, today’s blog post—without glossing over how serious this plague-ish pandemic is—is going to risk (possibly) making you laugh.

First (and this is in the rather grim humor category), is an occurrence from a grocery store whose name shall remain anonymous.  (I will give you a hint: An anagram for the name of the store is rekorg.)

I was in the coffee aisle, with my mask and latex gloves on, trying to find some flavored coffee.  I usually buy whatever is cheapest at General Dollar, but I decided that, since the world was coming to an end, I would treat myself to some nicer coffee.  As I was shelf-reading the coffee aisle, my eyes suddenly were jolted wide open, as if I had just had a double-shot of espresso.  For there on the shelf was a coffee called—and I am not making this up—“DEATH WISH”!  It even had the skull-and-crossbones on the package. Where do coffee companies come up with the names for all these specialty coffees? In view of what we are going through right now, this one should probably be retired.

Second story.

I was sitting in the rocker watching a rerun of Adam-12.  Our little dog was on my lap.  She jumped down.  At the commercial break, I decided to look for her.  I did not even have to get up.  She was standing on the third step of the stairs, right beside the rocker, staring at me.  “What does that look mean?” I asked.  Of course, she did not answer in any language that I know.

“Come back down,” I said to the little black and white creature.  She did.  Then, she leapt back up in my lap, climbed up my arm onto my shoulders and neck, and began licking my bald head.  I laughed and laughed.  Apparently our little dog is not terribly intimidated by the coronavirus.

Third story.

I don’t know if Progressive is really good insurance or not, but they most certainly make good commercials.  Take, for example, the bigfoot commercial.  Before I make any comment, you need to have a look at the commercial, if you are not familiar with it.  You may access it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AeavqyDYQtQ.

My wife was very eager to show me this video.  It may have been because she thinks I’m rather full of myself, and always want to be the center of attention.  If this was her thought, she had the decency not to say so.

Or, of course, it may be because my name is Daryl.  And yes, I’m afraid my feet really are pretty big. I am not writing a screen play, but I am a writer.

Go ahead and laugh!  I dare you! In fact, I give you permission!

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