[The following is a reprint of my post of September 17, 2018.]
This morning's blinding flash of the obvious: I can't make a fool of myself with only me seeing it...I be the fool for the benefit of others for however it comes to them to be benefitted.
After that daunting BFO, I read this interesting anecdote about Thomas Merton: When, at his monastery, a complaint was voiced to him, Merton would say, We don’t come to the monastery to get away from suffering; we come to hold the suffering of all the world.
What's fancifully wonderful is that I can equate my making a fool of myself to holding the suffering of all the world.
I say again, if it weren't for us, God wouldn't have any laughs at all.
Thank you.
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