{"id":13916,"date":"2016-08-18T00:45:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:45:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/14-laugh-with-one-another\/"},"modified":"2016-08-18T00:45:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-18T05:45:48","slug":"14-laugh-with-one-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/14-laugh-with-one-another\/","title":{"rendered":"14 LAUGH WITH ONE ANOTHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><b>\u201cI<\/b> love to see couples laughing together,\u201d the waitress said to us. We had just recalled a funny time with our grandchildren and were laughing uncontrollably together.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Judi has a favorite saying, \u201cLighten up. It\u2019s not life or death.\u201d As a nurse, she dealt with terminal illness and critical situations daily. Some of the mundane stuff in life can drain the fun out of living and loving together.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Become accustomed to the fact that life is problem-solving. You can approach problems with a sense of humor and overcome the circumstances. Or you can live \u201cunder the circumstances\u201d and make every problem a crisis.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Some marriages look like survival camps; every day is filled with heavy, weighty junk. But even persecuted peoples in history have developed \u201cgallows humor\u201d to overcome their plight.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Marriage isn\u2019t a life-sentence; it\u2019s a sentence to life. Enjoy the journey. Laugh at the circumstances and with each other. Have fun.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Let joy be your inner fuel for getting through your valleys together. Your spouse is a gift of joy to lift you up when you\u2019re down.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-indent: 18.0pt;line-height:normal'>Try this: Get a silly joke book. Take time to read it to each other. Make a decision to laugh at your problems instead of crying over them. Remember that tears last only for a season, but joy is eternal.<\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height: normal'><i>Rejoice in the Lord always. Again I will say, rejoice!<\/i><\/p>\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='margin-bottom:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt; text-align:right;line-height:normal'>Phil. 4:4\u20135<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI love to see couples laughing together,\u201d the waitress said to us. We had just recalled a funny time with our grandchildren and were laughing uncontrollably together. Judi has a favorite saying, \u201cLighten up. It\u2019s not life or death.\u201d As a nurse, she dealt with terminal illness and critical situations daily. Some of the mundane &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/14-laugh-with-one-another\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;14 LAUGH WITH ONE ANOTHER&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}