voice on the phone, the nosy neighbor who had caused this trouble. If I could have, I would have called her back and said, at least, “Get a life!” But eventually I was struck by the irony of what had just taken place. It was really quite funny. After all, if she truly was afraid of me sleeping on the bench I had installed in the park I had built on the property of which I was pastor, of course she would be frightened of disturbed street people. She has never called back or stopped to identify herself to me when I was sitting in the park, awake. No wonder God laughs with and at us. We are made in God’s image, and so is the world we live in. Yet we find ourselves at such odds with this world and with each other—and over the silliest things sometimes. I think that God designs certain humorous situations just to wake us up to see God’s face in someone else, in some setting we don’t expect.
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