BROKENNESS | INSPIRATION | PAIN
Brokenness: Playing With Your Pain
Is it possible for laughter and silliness to heal brokenness?
“Laughter is the BEST medicine!”
I don’t know who first coined that phrase but I do know how good it feels to laugh.
Is it possible for laughter and silliness to heal brokenness? I believe so.
A few years ago, my Dad was scheduled for brain surgery. His cancer had returned. Instead of wringing our hands with worry in the waiting room, my siblings and I bought a deck of cards at the gift shop and played euchre. We played so many hands that we actually wore the deck out.
Did we laugh? Yes!
Did we get a little silly? Yes!
Let’s just say Mom told us we needed to calm down.
Did it help reduce the stress? Yes! And when we told Dad, he laughed too.
I offer the following picture quote and Daily Doable with the hope that it will present to you a different perspective for dealing with brokenness.
Daily Doable: Sometimes to rebound from brokenness, it’s good to laugh. In how many ways can you take your pain and play with it?
It’s true, “Laughter is the BEST medicine!”
If you enjoyed this Inspire Point, I would like to invite you to read these stories on brokenness.
And before I go, please check out these stories from some of my CAPITAL Acquaintances. What’s a CAPITAL Acquaintance? Find out here.
This Inspire Point and Daily Doable were brought to you by Tim Maudlin. Please allow me to introduce myself.
This article was originally published on my site at DoWhatYouCanNow.com
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