Laughter - A Spiritual Story
I have lots of funny stories, some really embarrassing and not necessarily ones I want to share easily, even though we will all laugh at me and not perhaps with me. I chose this one because it’s really sweet and I thoroughly enjoyed it, and hope you will too. I tried it out on a couple of bank tellers in Ohio and they had a good laugh.
So………here goes, let me know if this makes you smile or even laugh out loud.
I was standing in my mum’s kitchen, with her marvelous radio on, while making her egg on toast, one of her all-time favorite morning meals. Once a week, and not on a Sunday, a minister would come on and share a story or a thought and he was youthful in his approach, not especially denominational and very articulate. I really enjoyed listening to him and especially on this day. He began his talk with mentioning honesty and wanted to admit to us, the listeners, how he had fallen short.
He had my attention.
His mum was in her late 70’s, and had been mastering the computer, with his and his siblings’ help. She was quite proud of her accomplishment, managing to keep in contact with all the family all the time, via email, online messenger and many other social media we are all familiar with. As a result they all sent her information constantly as she was generous and enthusiastic in responding to their contact and news. She was a great audience for them all.
When she approached her minister son with a question one day, he was extremely challenged with how to answer, and chose to give the “politically correct” answer, not necessarily the honest one. Her question had been:
“What does WTF stand for?”
The minister had a dilemma with the question. The spiritual and respectful son response he needed to uphold blurted out quickly and almost automatically. He told his mum that WTF stood for……………
“Wow! That’s Fabulous!”
She laughed out loud and said how wonderful that was. No wonder she heard it bantered around almost everywhere. She thanked him and they moved on to discuss his Church, the radio show and life in general. It was a good call and he forgot it’s content completely.
A couple of weeks went by and a couple of people enquired of him that they weren’t sure what was going on with his mum and her online presence. He was especially busy and simply didn’t concern himself with any issue, pushing off their comments and observations, letting them know she was feeling excited and accomplished with her new found friend in the computer and they needed to just support and encourage her.
Another week or more passed, and family and friends were scratching their heads, asking him what was happening with mum, as she was responding oddly to their news lately.
He stepped out of his own busy World and finally asked what they were experiencing.
One of them sent him a copy of her response to their news and he felt really, really bad.
Whatever anyone had been sending her for almost a month, she had responded with a WTF to almost every piece of good or great news.
They sent my daughter graduated - she sent “WTF”.
I got an A on my paper - she sent “WTF”.
I just got engaged and haven’t told anyone else yet - she sent “WTF”.
She sent one message. They received another quite different message.
He had to set her straight. The very truth he’d avoided was the one he had to face and she had almost a month to put right because of him.
He didn’t call her. He didn’t write. He dropped round with tea and cake and a tail between his legs with a humble apology.
He told her. At first she was amused and then a bit upset at all the people she had sent a “WTF” to. She ushered him out of the house and had lots of notes to write and calls to make.
My mum’s breakfast was a little late and I got to deliver it with a wonderful story.
While at it, I admitted to my gorgeous mum that she was guilty of getting the computer jargon a little wrong herself.
Whenever she wrote to me online, she answered any notes with “LOL” - for her it meant Lots of Love when in the online World it actually stood for “Laugh Out Loud”. I made her promise that even though she would now know it’s true earthly basis, she would continue to end her communications to me with “LOL” as I loved it and didn’t want to lose the double sweet meaning from her for one minute.
I really miss her “LOL” every day and look forward to reading them in the sky above my earthly reality.
I wish each of you
LOL
with my whole heart!
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