High Comedy in Low Tide

So we saw some funny stuff in class, but I don't think that they all quite captured enough of the Gospel as comedy. Rural red riding hood was classic slapstick, though of course Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin do it better. But for all the fits and giggles we went through, it didn't really do much for me. The Lunch Date, was a brilliant story of mistaken identity and brotherly love among strangers. The example of love showed by the black man, when the white woman thought he had taken her salad and so tried to take it back, was exemplary of the grace God shows to us as we reach for what we shouldn't have. This was great to see, but it kind of just left the point hanging there. Great job for getting the thinkers thinking but as a bad viewer, I expect a payoff. I expect an ending. The funny thing is that I already had my ending, even though I didn't know it. In chapel we had an hour of praise and worship. The songs declared God's might and constant presence while also calling us to admit our brokenness. Here I heard the tragedy and it sank in, but the comedy of how impossible God is brought my spirit up to the point that I sang til my throat was raw. I laughed all the way to class thinking how funny it was that such a great and powerful God cares anything for me personally with so much going on in his creation. I chuckled at how he loves me and how that feeling warms me from my nose to my toes. Then I came into class and laughed all the harder at the gags and tumbles in the videos we watched. Seeing the comedy of life makes everything so beautiful and brilliant. But as I write this, I am tired and sleepy, so it makes me a little more...I want to say objective but the word is negative. Sometimes it is hard to see the high comedy of God in things, but knowing it is there makes even the most logical of a person burst with joy at times. And those are the times I live for. So in the words of Yakko Warner...