Why do we laugh?

I distinctly remember this one time my sister and I were driving home from a film festival. It was late and it was storming. We were almost home. We were slowly rolling into a four way stop and all of a sudden I heard my sister repeating my name frantically. I saw headlights coming towards us. I swerved out of the way before the drunk driver hit us head on. I slowly went through the stop and checked to make sure that it wasn't my fault we almost died. Then I just started laughing. And I was laughing hard. My sister was having a panic attack in the passenger seat and I was laughing my head off at what had just happened.

I couldn't tell you why I started laughing. I just did. I've always been one to just laugh in the middle of chaos. My boyfriend dumps me? I laugh. I fail a test? I laugh. My wallet gets stolen? I laugh. The whole world could be crumbling around me and I would be cracking up.

Perhaps this goes back to the point that comedy is unexpected. We have always perceived God as this great, powerful, and stoic being. Which is true in a sense but he's also a fun being. He likes to have a good time. My favorite rendition of God is in Bruce Almighty. I love the way that they wrote God. They made him powerful and mysterious, but they also gave him that lighter and fun side that we often forget that God has. That movie (whether it be on purpose or unintentionally) shows us that God can be funny. That he finds us funny and we in turn should laugh with him.

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God has to have a sense of humor. Theres no way he doesn't. If he didn't have a sense of humor comedy wouldn't be a thing in our world. We as people need to laugh. Because otherwise we're just being tragic all the time. And what kind of a life is that?

And if my sister ever sees this, I'm sorry that I was literally no help while you were basically self destructing in the front seat of my Ion. But you gotta admit, almost dying was freaking hilarious.