The Tunes ap, (who uses the radio any more?) is featuring Fool-themes in keeping with the the atheists holiday. You know, Psalm 14:1, "The fool has said in his heart, There is no God," making April Fool's Day a legitimate atheist holiday. But I digress.
Anyway, I heard the song "Why Do Fools Fall in Love," a rock and roll classic from the 1950s that was rooted in the R&B style. Most people of KatieLyn's and Joe's generation are more familiar with the Diana Ross version. For me, it was the Beach Boys' rendition that's most familiar.
That vered off-topic, but in a fun way. Okay, back to the issue at hand. So, it is a rhetorical question, "why do fools fall in love?" I am not going to plumb the depths of the lyrics looking for some arcane truth. What I am going to do is experiment with transcribing some observations about fools by juxtaposing portions of what 1 Corinthians 13 says about love.
Fools are impatient, fools are unkind and jealous;Replacing 'love' with 'fool' and then stating the opposite makes surprisingly good poetry!
Fools display a false bravado and are obstinate.
Fools act unbecomingly; they seek their own, provoking others.
Fools take into account a wrong suffered,
They justify unrighteousness, not recognizing the truth;
Fools won't carry their own weight, fools believe only what they wish,
Fools destroy hope, and run from the slightest shadow.
Fools fail.
The Lesson
The lesson is that if you should pound the fool in the mortar among the grain with the pestle, his foolishness would not depart from him. The grain represents the fuel of life; it sustains health. Pound it into a fool until every cell in his/her body comes in contact with the bread of life, and he/she will still be a fool.
KatieLyn won't believe that Joe heard God. And when I say "won't believe," I mean that she, as an act of her own intent and volition, wills to disbelieve that Joe heard from God. The very behaviors that she has exhibited since she ran back home in the middle of the night lend weight and support to the fact that Joe did hear God clearly because she acted like someone who was running from God, not to Him. For example, she is quite obstinate about it even though she has yet to articulate a reason that makes sense. The main issue of her behavior since she ran away, (her insistence on triangulating,) surpasses 'unbecoming' and 'unkind' and is abusive, heading for psychotic.
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