Do not make Me so serious in your mind. I take delight. I am not somber. Why, then, are you?
You are a dancer in the universe. Dancing is lightness of heart.
Be an adorer in the universe. Adore your heart away with the joy that is Mine.
Do you think I am a God Who frowns? Good Heavens, I am the bliss you seek. Would you even seek Me were I glum? You would run away from Me. Who would not run away from a guillotine poised? What merriment is there in that? Guillotines are not joyous. But I am. I am.
You may live in drama, but I live in love. Love without joy is not love. Love is joy. Suffer not suffering unto Me.
Do you really think that when you come to Me, I would ask you to recite a long list of sins and omissions? Hardly. I would be so happy to have you that you would forget everything else. Nothing else would matter. All the imagined past would be gone. You would embrace joy. You would leap over everything you have accumulated, including varied assortments of guilt. You would toss guilt aside. You would know its unimportance.
Of course, you want a joyful God. And I want a joyful you. Let's trade joy. Joy for joy, love for love. None of this about an eye for an eye unless is it a shining eye of joy. None of this about tooth for a tooth, unless it is a bright tooth revealed by a smile. What kind of a God do you take Me for?
I am not a God Who burdens. I am a God Who unburdens.
When you come to Me, I say, "Sit down. Take a load off your feet. Tell Me about all your joys."
Yes, come to Me with a list of joys. Leave the list of endless woe behind. Woe is an old story. We are looking for a new one. We are looking for laughter to spill across the pages, not tears. Let Us laugh together now. Let Us laugh so much that tears of joy run down Our cheeks. Let Us laugh and love so much that we cannot stop. Let Us be an ocean of laughter that flows forever, wave after wave of laughter, laughter rolling like hills, laughter overtaking the imposing seriousness of the world, washing it away, drowning it with joy, sweeping seriousness away, for there is no place for it. The exception is, of course, if someone other than you needs you to be serious, then you do it for them with inner joy and merriment.
If you yourself must take something seriously, take laughter then! But of course laughter cannot be taken seriously. That is its virtue. Laughter puts everything in perspective. Laughter sets the world aright.
Certainly, the joy of laughter is not to be had at anyone's expense. There is no expense to laughter. Laugh, laugh, laugh. Laugh aloud. Have sobs of laughter. Roll across the universe with laughter. Let laughter make you a light balloon. Let it fuel you to Heaven where laughter will meet greater laughter, and laughter will know no bounds.
Can you imagine a summit meeting with laughter? Who would consider war when they could have laughter?
Learn the language of joy. Communicate in joy. Become the most fun person in the world. Be contagious. You already are. But what is it that you spread? Never mind. Now spread joy. Be joydust and sprinkle yourself across the universe.
What is this transient life that you take so seriously? When you are at a bus stop, you know you are there for only a little while. You know there is life beyond the bus stop. You know you are a traveler. Now travel for joy. Find joy even in waiting at the bus stop. Life on Earth is like riding a bus. It is getting on, and it is getting off.
Make joy rather than sense of it. How about a nice smile for Me today?