Some time back I read Deepak Chopra's book, "Jesus." It did very little for me but in the most profound way. I pretty much pooh-poohed every other word even as I read it, but I could not stop reading it.
To me, the punchline of the book is: Judas, Jesus's boyhood friend/antagonist, was God's appointed agent in helping Jesus getting over his own self. Without Judas acting as Jesus's "emery board," so to speak, Jesus may have been just another carpenter.
When I take a pratfall, even with the best instructions in my head and heart, the trick is remembering to be grateful for the fall...specifically, to be grateful to the perceived reason for my fall. My ego, a.k.a., God's fun-friend Lucy, together with my reasoning mind, will be looking for the person to blame before I ever hit the ground.
Gratitude for the warts. That's how we come to love our enemy, why we can willingly turn the other cheek and...the pearl of greatest price...how "resist not evil" leads to peace. There. Thinking on it, that book may well be my most valuable possession.
Thank you.
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