God's Foolishness

Saint Paul startled the community at Corinth when he compared God's "foolishness" to our "wisdom"...saying "the foolishness of God is wiser than human wisdom",  and furthering his point, "the weakness of God is stronger than human strength." (1 Cor 1:25).  We certainly rate a place with the foolish virgins of the Gospel, priding ourselves that "we know what we have to do and can take care of ourselves." It's only when our lamps run low on oil and the door is locked in our face that we realize that God's ways are the best, really, the only ways.  In his wisdom he has chosen us foolish ones, sinful people like Peter, to do his work.  Peter admitted his unworthiness which appears many times before Pentecost, yet God remained faithful to his choice of this man as the leader as he chose the cross and its message to confound the wise. St. Marcellin would be the first to admit his "foolishness" in founding a congregation of teachers, himself lacking a polished education, but again God's foolishness proved wiser and this foolish enterprise begun in a remote village in Southern France 200 years ago is now a major contributor to the Catholic education of youth throughout the world.  May God bless us with a touch of his wisdom so that what we deem as foolish and impossible in human terms, we might come to see as wise and doable in his terms.
Bro. Rene