My father was a writer. He wrote all of his life, inflicting upon many of us his novels, plays, articles, essays, and self-help books. Some were marvelous; some merely well-intentioned. But of all the things he wrote, his journal is his legacy: by turns wise and bewildering, it neared 1,100 type-written pages when he died in 2010. Although perused many times, this is the first time it will be read - cover to cover, page after page.
Wednesday, December 21, 2011
The Foolishness of Faith
The foolishness of which Paul speaks is not the same as ignoring reality. The foolishness of faith is rather the acceptance of things such as violence, hatred, and pain. But it is also realization that it can be changed, that what is need not be, that it can be better, that it can be as it was meant to be.
Labels:
best intentions,
change,
faith,
foolishness,
hope,
pain,
scripture,
violence
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