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Wednesday Wonder
December 9, 2015

Just recently I was listening to a certain commentator and in the midst of his monologue he said, "Never underestimate the insanity of the world." The same thing has been said differently over the centuries, which only reinforces its truth; insanity fills the world. It touches many aspects that surround us.
 
This particular insanity does not have a diagnostic label you will find in DSM-V. It is not a condition that sends you tumbling into rehab. Insanity of this variety does not include delusions or hallucinations. So what is it?
 
Let's go back to St. Anthony the Great: "A time is coming when men will go mad, and when they see someone who is not mad, they will attack him, saying, 'You are mad; you are not like us.'"
 
The madness of the world is ruled by other than the real spiritual principles through which it was originally created and intended. We are intended to be one, connected to every other creature. We are intended to be ruled by love. We are intended to recognize that we are creatures, not the Creator. We are intended to revel in peace. We are intended ...
 
The madness of the world turns over the original intent and replaces it with the agenda of ego, selfishness, materialism, paranoia and violence. And then, when one who is not insane challenges all this insanity, charts a different way, he or she is called insane.
 
In the middle of the Judean night, occupied by a foreign power, beset by poverty and vast inequality, constrained by the bonds of oppressive religious structures, sanity got born into the insane world. For a moment we hush and gaze upon it. Aha, that's what it looks like. We suspend our obsessive schemes and plans for a moment. There it is and what it looks like - the peace and joy and harmony. For a while we say this and for a while they said that.
 
But as we know, soon enough the mad world goes after the one who is not mad, accusing him of not being like them.
 
Most surely he was not. In fact, it never is, wherever that spirit shows up. 

 

@Timothy Carson 2014

 

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