THE FOOLISHNESS OF GOD........

While reading some nuggets from the "Patches of Godlight", I found this really neat piece, written by Fredrick Buechner, that I wanted to share......Hope you get as much out of it, as I did..........

"We are fools for Christ's sake",Paul says, in the first letter to the Corinthians."God is foolish too",Paul says."God is foolish to choose for His Holy work in the world the kind of lamebrained and misfits and nitpickers and odd ducks and stuffed shirts and ego maniacs and milquetoast and closet sensualists to speak hope to a world that slogs along heart-deep in the conviction that things can only get worse.....
He is foolish to have us speak of loving our enemies when we have a hard enough time loving our friends.....
God is foolish to have us proclaim eternal life to a world that is half in love with death.....
God is foolish to send us out on a journey for which there is no map, and to aim us in the direction of a goal we can never know until we get there.
Such is the foolishness of God."
And yet,Paul says,....
"The foolishness of God is wiser than man"

Need I say more?......
Becky