Laughter can be the best medicine!

On such a sad day for some, it is uplifting to hear a little laughter - whether it is nervous laughter or full on belly laughing - it is so good for us.  Here is a story about Teresa - 74 years old

 Teresa

Died: October 25, 2009

The funeral starts the way it normally does, I announce the opening hymn to sing and noone picks up the hymnals to sing (I truly am surprised when people sing with me)  - so I start singing, the casket, priest and the family process down the aisle.  The family is seated and the service continues...

We have the first reading - which went smoothly... then.... One of the cousins started to go up to the pulpit, she thought she was going to read the second reading and the priest walks up to her and says...

“hi dear, won’t you sit down because we have the psalm first.."  Well, the family started to laugh.. so she sheepishly went to sit down, the family was still cracking up..I actually had to wait for them to stop laughing! So, finally,  I go and sing the psalm and they are all still snickering and I am trying to be all serious, but I could not help but smile.  So after I am done singing, I go and sit down.  Now it was time for her to go up to read the second reading..she gets up, we hear snickering, she walks  up and the family started laughing again- it was hysterical.  As she started reading, she was giggling.. She did get through the second reading – this whole thing brought some levity to the situation. And even the priest mentioned in his sermon that the laughter that he heard from the family is a great tribute to the love of Teresa and the love of family- that they were not afraid to laugh  - and we found out that Teresa loved life, her family and she loved to laugh at a great joke.

It was great....So laugh a little today -

Peace out kiddies...

M-