God is one funny creator of all things.
I’m talking five star, universe class sense of humor.
Seriously.
I’m not being sarcastic or sardonic or even irreverent.
Pun mildly intended.
I really believe, in my heart of hearts, that sense of humor is, at the end of the day, the one life blessing that we sincerely could not continue to exist without.
And if we are really created in God’s image, then He is one divinely droll dude.
If only because he gave us Sarah Palin and Saturday Night Live in the same space-time continuum.
Lots of people think that SNL’s hot air balloon popping take on things is disrespectful, even unpatriotic.
F’em if they cant take a joke.
Because the refusal to simply lie down and roll over in the face of genuine concerns about our freedoms and future often inevitably comes with a varnish that makes it look disrespectful, even unpatriotic.
Like, for example, the way those irreverent funsters Washington and Jefferson and Adams, et al, told England to shove it a couple hundred years ago.
It is the freedom to pop those balloons that makes America unique among nations.
And “limited freedom” is like “ a little bit pregnant.”
So I say thanks to SNL for holding up the mirror, or looking glass if you prefer, to our wackiness and giving us the chance to apply a much needed perspective to the choices we have to make in our lives by tapping into our collective sense of humor.
And for that sense of humor?
Thank God.
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