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"We need to have fun and play games because God commands us to rest from work; to break the pattern of work and its grip on our daily lives, schedules, and thinking. Those of us who value play have a biblical basis for seeing play as important: “There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under heaven…a time to weep and a time to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance” (Ecclesiastes 3:1-4).
I don’t think the average person may imagine Jesus as someone who laughed and knew the true meaning of fun. Most art and media usually portray Jesus as stern and unsmiling. Yet isn’t he the Creator of our ability to smile and laugh in the first place? And since Jesus was fully human as well as divine, we can safely assume Jesus loved a good, hearty laugh now and again.
I believe only the innocent (children) or those liberated from guilt are really free and able to play. We’ve long been like bathers who want to keep their feet, or at least one foot, or by all means one toe, on the bottom so we stay grounded. To lose that foothold would be to surrender ourselves to a glorious tumble into the surf.
And you know what? That’s not a bad thing."
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I don’t think the average person may imagine Jesus as someone who laughed and knew the true meaning of fun. Most art and media usually portray Jesus as stern and unsmiling. Yet isn’t he the Creator of our ability to smile and laugh in the first place? And since Jesus was fully human as well as divine, we can safely assume Jesus loved a good, hearty laugh now and again.
I believe only the innocent (children) or those liberated from guilt are really free and able to play. We’ve long been like bathers who want to keep their feet, or at least one foot, or by all means one toe, on the bottom so we stay grounded. To lose that foothold would be to surrender ourselves to a glorious tumble into the surf.
And you know what? That’s not a bad thing."
love it!