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BY: DR. ERIC FAUST
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
CHURCH
“Humph! I laughed once,
about 15 years ago!” That
was the opening line of my
Newsletter article one
month. Dare we think about
laughter in a time of sadd-
ness, bitterness, anger,
mourning, threats against
neighbors.
Have you laughed lately?
Have you noticed how many
kinds of laughter and
laughers there are around
us? From snickers and gig-
gles, to great belly convuls-
ing guffaws. Laughter, from
a stacatto “Ha!” to a rolling
stream of ‘Heh, Heh, heh’s.
Try one on for size.. (Pause
for demonstration)...
Think of the time you were
caught in that silly and inept
moment: you had just lost the
battle with your 9 month old,
feeding her/him the favorite
cream pie with meringue,
when the front doorbell rings.
You rush from the kitchen
through the living room to
answer it, and just as you sw-
ing the door open you
simultaneously glimpse
yourself in the reflection in
the storm door glass, and
your visitor. ‘Oh Ho! Ah Hah
Hahhh!”’ You can only laugh,
your visitor is Mrs. Stuff E.
Shirt, who has never had one
hair out of place, let along
meringue all over her face,
and there you are. Hee, hee,
oh me!
Well, there are laughs and
there are laughs aren’t
there?
I remember going into a
hospital room on a dreary,
gray, misty, foggy day; a day
good only or a nice crackling
fire in the fireplace, and a
cup of soup, and a great book,
one of those kinds of days....
Well I went to visit. My
parishoner was a man who
never enjoyed his illnesses.
He was lying there, his face
glum, his chin helping to keep
his feet warm. The light was
turned off, the shades were
drawn, the door was closed.
It could have been room 1313
in the House of Gloom.
History
Program
Slated
Mount Pisgah Baptist
Church will hold its annual
Black History program on
‘Sunday, Feb. 9th, at 6 p.m.
The guest speaker will be
retired professional basket-
ball player George Adams of
Kings Mountain, who now
resides in Gastonia.
The public is invited to
come out and support the
culture and history of Black
America, said Mary C.
Hunter, director, and Charles
A. Turner, pastor.
Youth Group
To Sing Here
The New Beginning
Singers, a youth ensemble,
from Mars Hill College, will
be singing Sunday, Feb. 9th
at 11 a.m. at Second Baptist
Church, 120 Linwood Dr., in
Kings Mountain and then at
Allen Memorial, Grover at 7
p.m. the same day.
The ensemble is under the
direction of Clay Ollis, a
‘Kings Mountain resident.
The public is invited to at-
- tend either of these services.
Mission Program
Slated At Dixon
Jim Dickson, a Clover at-
torney and member of the
Clover Mission Soup, will
speak on the work of former
Kings Mountain doctor Ken-
neth McGill in Zaire at a
Witness Season covered dish
supper Sat., Feb. 15 at 6 p.m.
at Dixon Presbyterian
Church.
Dickson and other
members of the Clover group
have made many trips to
Zaire to assist in construction
projects at the Bulape
Hospital, where Dr. McGill is
chief surgeon.
The public is invited to at-
tend.
‘Roast
As I came in, I did not see
his shoes or whatever it was
that was on the floor, and I
tripped. No, it wasn’t a
crashing trip, it was that kind
where you stumble and lurch
forward and try to grab on to
something. Well I grabbed on
to his table, which of course is
“on those swivel wheels that
never go where you want
them to go. Instead of
stabilizing my fall, it coasted
me along. We skimmed the
bed. The paper cup and the
drink on the table began to
teeter; the box of chocolates
with those little brown cup-
pies to hold the individual
morsels, began to totter. We
were headed straight for the,
er, well, the in-room facility.
What a sight! The young
puiniicen, collar askew, arms
unging for a better hold, legs
flailing in mid air, hands try-
ing to keep the drink from
spillin ; and the Shoals
from flying, and we all land-
ed in a thumping Shawl It
could have been worse, ...in
the, uh, oh my!
I never heard such a noise,
after all of the debris settled.
The man was nearly gurgl-
ing. He started laughing,
several varieties at once. 1
mumbled a few sheepish
“har de har’s”. The head
nurse came storming in, her
eyes flashing and ready for
battle; only she stumbled too.
It wasn’t nearly as
dramatically done as mine,
and thank the Lord she didn’t
land her ampleness on me.
But she surveyed the scene,
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‘Enjoy The Abundance Of Joy In Jesus Christ
and her soprano guffaws, his
gurgling, my Hey, Heh’s soon
had us all rolling in side-
stitches. Oh, it hurts just to
picture that hospital room
again.
You know what happened?
That afternoon was a turning
point for my friend. Darkness
and dreariness were driven
away. Laughter was a ‘sur-
prise gift and a wonderful
medicine.
Sarah be, Sean to laugh when
she learned that she was go-
ing to have a baby, and she
only 100 years old. She was so
surprised, pleased, over-
joyed, and amazed, and
maybe even a little embar-
rased that she named her
baby LAUGHTER (Isaac).
Proverbs has a great way
to put it: “A merry heart
doeth good like a medicine,
but a downcast spirit dries up
the bones.” (17:22) Jesus
spoke of this and called it
JOY: “...that my joy may be
in you, and that your joy may
be full.” John 15:11.
As you receive the surprise
gift of God’s Grace given in
Jesus Christ, enjoy the abun-
dance of joy and let it pour on
you and run over and dri
down your beard, and splash
in your heart, and slosh in
your footprints. Be
transformed. AMEN.
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