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Silliness makes me laugh, mostly, my own silliness.

Absurdity tickles my funny bone.

Tragedy triggers my latent gallows humor.

Comedies of errors have that effect.

Stupidity can often evoke a chuckle.

Poetic justice can bring me tears and laughter at the same time.

God laughs. In fact, I presume that humor flows from the very nature of God.

I suspect that the connection between tragedy and comedy in Greek drama was more God's idea than the Greeks'.

Now, God is not cruel in laughter as one who delights in anyone's destruction.

At the same time,  God sees the humor in man's pride and sense of indestructibility.

God is our model for a healthy sense of humor when we are surrounded by the bellowing voices of confident evil.

God is laughing and inviting us to hold up a mirror on our lives and laugh with all of Heaven at the absurdity of our ways. It is a tool for our life-change. It is a prompting to turn around.

Don't lose your sense of humor at the absurd. God hasn't.

He is the original author of slapstick. It comes with a broken heart and tears for those who wander, but He does see the humor in it all as well.

… still reaching out to redeem and reconcile.

" The wicked plots against the righteous
and gnashes his teeth at him,
but the Lord laughs at the wicked,
for he sees that his day is coming."

– Psalm 37:12-13 (ESV)

One word of advice: Recognize it, appreciate it, and participate in it, but don't over-analyze it.