To pray for your enemies, to worry about the poor when you have
worries enough of your own, to start becoming yourself fully by giving
of yourself prodigally to whoever needs you, to love your neighbors when
an intelligent fourth-grader could tell you that the way to get ahead
in the world is to beat your neighbors to the draw every chance you
get-that was what this God asked, Paul wrote.
That was who this God was.
That was who Jesus was. Paul is passionate in his assertion, of
course, that in the long run it is such worldly wisdom as the
intelligent fourth-grader's that is foolish and the sublime foolishness of God that is ultimately wise.
- Frederick Buechner
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