Even amid trials, find opportunities to laugh!

Published: April 1, 2020, 7:33 p.m.

Find opportunities for humor. Laughter persists as people create memes and musical parodies amid the coronavirus crisis. There are humor and lessons in these moments of challenge. We agree with the sentiment of Abraham Lincoln who said, “With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh, I should die.’ And follow the admonition of Henry B. Eyring in the 1982 BYU talk A Law of Increasing Returns, when he asked us to ‘Keep your eyes open for humor in the present.” Boyd Matheson,Opinion Editor at Deseret News, takes you inside the latest political news and current events, providing higher ground for today's discussions. Listen weekdays 11 am to noon at 1160 AM and 102.7 FM, online at KSLNewsradio.com, or on the app. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.