april fools

I talked to a patient who told me he'd been married for 62 years.  I asked him what marriage secrets he could share.  He said it wasn't all that hard.  "If we ever fight, I just apologize or tell her why she is wrong."


I talked to a woman who wanted financial assistance for the pharmacy.  She told me she had been coughing up blood but didn't tell her doctor "cause he wouldn't have cared any way."

I overheard two family members of a patient waiting in the lobby for visiting hours.  One said "I don't care what my boss says, if I don't feel like doing the work, I'm not going to do it."

I asked the soup and salad server in the cafeteria if the vegetable soup was vegetarian.  "Mostly", he replies.

Foolishness abounds.

Brennan Manning talks about the phrase you will hear sung, chanted, and recited in French churchs around Easter.  "L'amour de Diu est folie!"  The love of God is folly.

The phrase is beautiful and loaded with meaning.  But even more than that, it's understandable.  Folly is a language we all speak.

For the message of the cross is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved it is the power of God.  1 Corinthians 1:18