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I've got the wonderful love of my blessed redeemer way down in the depths of my heart.

If my faith is not irrational, if my faith does not appear crazy to those on a different path, what is the point? I would rather appear wrong on the right path than appear right on the wrong path.

The only thing that matters is that Spiritual Fruit abound. It is easy to look crazy. It is impossible to bear fruit apart from intimacy with the Spirit. Craziness will not bring me to the Spirit and produce fruit...but intimacy with the Spirit and bearing abundant Fruit will look crazy. People apart from this faith do not love like Jesus, are not joyous like Jesus, are not in peace like Jesus, are not patient like Jesus, are not consistently Good like Jesus, are not always able to be kind like Jesus, are not Gentle like Jesus. When the narrow way is observed from the broad way, there is no doubt that the one on the narrow way is just loonie. At the same time, the fruitfulness of the life of faith is visible too. Another contrast as well is that the life of religion bears something different from the life without religion, but what it produces is not Spirit Fruit.

Spirit Fruit, expressed out of me by the living sap of real life inside, is the indicator of the right path. But Gods love looks mad. Not when there is an occasional expression, but when the flow is generous and persistent.

Oh, to be thought mad by the loveless. Oh, to be thought a cornucopia by those who hunger and thirst. Amen.