It’s Day 19 of the Giving Thanks Challenge hosted by Leah at South Breeze Farm.

I am thankful for humor!

“Mirth is God’s medicine. Everybody ought to bathe in it. Grim care, moroseness, anxiety — all this rust of life ought to be scoured off by the oil of mirth. It is better than emery. Every man ought to rub himself with it. A man without mirth is like a wagon without springs, in which everyone is caused disagreeably to jolt by every pebble over which is runs.” ~ Henry Ward Beecher

We have to keep it in balance, of course — I’ve known a few who take it too far, who exhibit little reverence or respect because everything is a joke. But I do think God has a sense of humor. I can’t imagine creating one of these without one:

A merry heart doeth good like a medicine.
Proverbs 17:22a