Learning to Laugh

This week was one of the hardest ever, but this is the week that you learned to laugh.  It brings such a joy to think about that fact.  God gave us a glimpse of your personality and a picture of another truth to teach you as you get older.  Only God can supply joy in the midst of trials and difficulty.  When we serve Him, we can put aside the temptation to despair and the emotions that flood our minds when faced with a difficult circumstance.  This world is temporal.  The things that we face in this world will not last.  But God is all-powerful and eternal.  He will last!  There is a joy and a peace that comes when we learn these truths.  I am so glad that this is the week you learned to laugh.  I am so excited every time I hear it, especially when you laugh at Papa talking and playing with you when he comes home from work.  You are learning and growing in so many ways.  Someday you will get to learn what it means to find heavenly laughter in the midst of an earthly trial.  It doesn't mean that the trial goes away or is suddenly easy.  But perspective changes.  Suddenly you remember that this trial staring you in the face and trying to look all big, mean, and ugly is in reality hardly anything.  You learn to pray like Johnathan Edwards, "Lord, stamp eternity on my eyeballs."  Then the things that God cares about become your cares.  Selfish desires turn into Kingdom desires, and you begin to see the lost and dying people around you.  They become way more important than the trial that at first seemed so big.


2Co 4:16-18  For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.  For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory; while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.