Scripture: Genesis 21:1-21

Proverbs 13:12

+ God is the God who gives laughter

Psalm 126:1-3

+ God will deal with every threat to our joy

Luke 1:67–69

Luke 7:11–17

John 16:20–22

Galatians 4:21–23

Galatians 4:28–31

+ One day our Joy will never be threatened again

1 Peter 2:12

"Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?"

"A great Shadow has departed," said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count." – J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King.