Maxed Out Mama’s extraordinary witness

This post needs no commetary from me, and anything I tried to add would be both superflurous and stupidly gratuitous. Maxed Out Mama had her bell rung some time ago, and it has wrought great wisdom. You’ll want to read it slowly and maybe print it out and keep it. To excerpt any part of it is to rob the power of the whole, but I must say, I liked this part the best, because I really understood what she is saying:

I perceived both freedom in the acts of the created beings and the impossibility of defying God. You can choose to utterly wall off what could be of your life, but very few of us will ever do that. What God intends has, from God’s point of view, already been accomplished and is also coming into being, and there is no doubt that it will be as God intended. The only real choice for a human being, from God’s perspective, is whether to participate in creation, and if you choose not to, some other will be born to take your place or someone else will choose to double back and pick up your burden.

It’s all really good. The Fool on the Couch reminds me of many of the saints of the Catholic church whose openness, whose consent to suffering, brought much wisdom.