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“Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die.”  Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln lost his mother at age nine, his only sister at age 18,  one child, Eddie,  before he became the 16th president of ...

Laughter and humor are in our world for a reason. What are some benefits of laughter? Proverbs 15:13 says, “A joyful heart makes a cheerful face. But when the heart is sad, the spirit is broken.” A similar verse, Proverbs 17:22, gives another reason. It calls laughter “good medicine.” According to Ecclesiastes ...