Happy Easter!
Happy Easter to all those on my f-list, whether or not it has any spiritual meaning for you. :) Too bad the weather's cruddy for most of us in the US. It's even raining here. It hardly ever rains here!
Anyway, because it's Easter:
God's Own Fool
by Michael Card
Seems I've imagined Him all of my life
As the wisest of all of mankind
But if God's holy wisdom is foolish to man
He must have seemed out of His mind
For even His family said He was mad
And the priest said a demon's to blame
God in the form of this angry young man
Could not have seemed perfectly sane
When we in our foolishness thought we were wise
He played the fool and He opened our eyes
When we in our weakness believed we were strong
He became helpless to show we were wrong
So we follow God's own fool
For only the foolish can tell
Believe the unbelievable, come be a fool as well
So come lose your life for a carpenter's son
For a man that died for a dream
And you'll have the faith His first followers had
And you'll feel the weight of the beam
So surrender the hunger to say you must know
And the courage to say, "I believe"
For the power of paradox opens your eyes
And blinds those who say they can see
When we in our foolishness thought we were wise
He played the fool and He opened our eyes
When we in our weakness believed we were strong
He became helpless to show we were wrong
So we follow God's own fool
For only the foolish can tell
Believe the unbelievable, come be a fool as well
I just love this song because it's so...true! How crazy and foolish Jesus must have seemed to his contemporaries! Just as many of us who follow Him now are called fools. Funny how that works, isn't it? A good friend of The Mook's (sort of a godmother) likes to say that God likes the crackpots because His lights shines better through a cracked pot. I don't think I could say it better myself. :)
My prayer is simply that may we all become fools and thus come to know the freedom to be found in it. :)
God bless you all, my friends. :)
Anyway, because it's Easter:
God's Own Fool
by Michael Card
Seems I've imagined Him all of my life
As the wisest of all of mankind
But if God's holy wisdom is foolish to man
He must have seemed out of His mind
For even His family said He was mad
And the priest said a demon's to blame
God in the form of this angry young man
Could not have seemed perfectly sane
When we in our foolishness thought we were wise
He played the fool and He opened our eyes
When we in our weakness believed we were strong
He became helpless to show we were wrong
So we follow God's own fool
For only the foolish can tell
Believe the unbelievable, come be a fool as well
So come lose your life for a carpenter's son
For a man that died for a dream
And you'll have the faith His first followers had
And you'll feel the weight of the beam
So surrender the hunger to say you must know
And the courage to say, "I believe"
For the power of paradox opens your eyes
And blinds those who say they can see
When we in our foolishness thought we were wise
He played the fool and He opened our eyes
When we in our weakness believed we were strong
He became helpless to show we were wrong
So we follow God's own fool
For only the foolish can tell
Believe the unbelievable, come be a fool as well
I just love this song because it's so...true! How crazy and foolish Jesus must have seemed to his contemporaries! Just as many of us who follow Him now are called fools. Funny how that works, isn't it? A good friend of The Mook's (sort of a godmother) likes to say that God likes the crackpots because His lights shines better through a cracked pot. I don't think I could say it better myself. :)
My prayer is simply that may we all become fools and thus come to know the freedom to be found in it. :)
God bless you all, my friends. :)