Last EY meeting, we had a topic called 'A Fool and His Happiness Are Soon Parted'. Basically it was a discussion on the Book of Proverbs and the definitions of what is a fool and the types of personality/roles that we become from time to time or in different situations. (The Wise, The Simple, The Fool, The Mocker, The Tempter, The Sluggard).
Not going into too much of the details, one of the activities was asking the people present to complete the following phrase.."A Fool is..." Some of the more interesting ones are as follows:
That got me thinking. Many a times, we all laughed (I would be the chief culprit here) at the silliness or foolishness of some of the actions of the youths or people that we read on the news or in the internet. We always said to ourselves "Goodness, how dumb/stupid can those people be? I wouldn't be caught doing it.." or something like that. But looking back at my life, I have to wonder what would God be seeing? Am I a fool? I realized that many things I should not be doing, and yet I do. I know the follies of such actions and yet I persists in being the fool. I always thought that if one day when I see God face to face, and out comes a huge plasma TV which would show my entire life...I guess it would pretty much be an episode of Mr. Bean. The foolish things that I have done. Things in secret, things hidden, things that I thought nobody would know or ever find out. Forgetting that God was there all the time. What a fool am I...Still the definition of a fool is that one that persists in carrying out foolish actions. So the question remains, should I remain a fool?
I was a fool, am a fool...will I continue to be a fool? What about you?
Katan
THE FOOL...
Not going into too much of the details, one of the activities was asking the people present to complete the following phrase.."A Fool is..." Some of the more interesting ones are as follows:
- A fool is A fool.
- A fool is one fool.
- A fool is one who don't know what a fool is.
- A fool is someone who jumps into a pool, to play the pool with a stupid tool (or something like that)
That got me thinking. Many a times, we all laughed (I would be the chief culprit here) at the silliness or foolishness of some of the actions of the youths or people that we read on the news or in the internet. We always said to ourselves "Goodness, how dumb/stupid can those people be? I wouldn't be caught doing it.." or something like that. But looking back at my life, I have to wonder what would God be seeing? Am I a fool? I realized that many things I should not be doing, and yet I do. I know the follies of such actions and yet I persists in being the fool. I always thought that if one day when I see God face to face, and out comes a huge plasma TV which would show my entire life...I guess it would pretty much be an episode of Mr. Bean. The foolish things that I have done. Things in secret, things hidden, things that I thought nobody would know or ever find out. Forgetting that God was there all the time. What a fool am I...Still the definition of a fool is that one that persists in carrying out foolish actions. So the question remains, should I remain a fool?
I was a fool, am a fool...will I continue to be a fool? What about you?
Katan
THE FOOL...
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