ECIPLESHIP for Passionate Christ-Followers

Shane and I did something fun yesterday — we went to the Red Bull  Flutag on Harriet Island in St. Paul. What a blast!

“Flutag” means flight day in German. This may be a generous description of the event. Most of the flights went straight down from the 50 foot high ramp, plunging with impressive flair into the mighty Mississippi. It was a display of our human race’s penchant for goofiness. With little other purpose than to have fun, people spent hours on the disastrous flying machines only to give 90,000 attendants a thrilling display of engineering failure. But, wow! Did we have fun! And we even saw a 16 year Flutag world record broken! Someone actually flew 207 feet before getting wet.

I think we Christians sometime miss out. We can get so serious about life that we forget to enjoy this amazing daily gift. We sometimes look like we’ve been weened on dill pickles. Laughter is far from us even though scripture tells us that laughter is good medicine.

So here’s a suggestion for today. Worship God by laughing today…a lot. I think it makes God really happy when we’re happy. I suspect it brings Him some of His best moments. With honest giddy emotion, we let God know what a wonderful world and delightful experience He is providing for us. Even down here.