Right before our eyes... Paradox!

Foolishness is a condition of mind which occasionally causes the wise to fumble and flounder. The Roman Catholic Lectionary offers two visions of foolishness. The supposedly wise who fail to try to perceive or to ponder the great questions of the relationship of the observed universe to the Divine and the personal life to all life are stumbling through the life experience. Luke continues to point to the offer from Jesus to be open to paradox and able to add to our understanding a tension with values which are counter to our ‘common sense’. For from the greatness and beauty of created things comes a corresponding perception of their Creator (Wisdom 13) Those who try to make their life secure will lose it, but those who lose their life will keep it. (Luke 17).