As a respite from the approaching end-of-the-school-year exam season this lesson will explore the phenomenon of the meme, a curious and humorous kind of visual message that has become—for most of us—an indispensable and spirit-lifting part of our daily communication.

We know we are human when we laugh. Our sense of humor, and our ability to laugh, are powers that God bestowed only to human beings. These powers require our intellects to first know the proper place and order of things in creation. Only then can we find joy, or delight, in the unexpected disproportion, or sudden reversal, of a comedic situation or speech.

Despite the state of the world, which will always be in ebb and flow between rest and upheaval, we know as Christians that true and eternal joy is ours, for Our Savior is risen and death has been defeated forever! The Easter season is a special reminder that we, too, shall rise again on the last day, for He has gone before us, “the first-fruits” of the resurrection. Christ has made a joke of death, and the last laugh is His!

The truth is, the world is sick and in need of the Divine Physician, and our joyful laughter is the best medicine.