Tonight I sign a note for a huge loan. I am going from being debt free to being in debt for the next 5 years easily. 400 clown shows to pay off I estimate. Interesting comment in the delawareonline.com article on using clowns in the ministry titled “Blessed Are The Silly“….
“Baker [Rev. Baker of Aldersgate United Methodist Church] praised the Merrimakers as wounded healers, borrowing a phrase from Catholic theologian Henri Nouwen. Wounded healers are people who’ve known grief, loneliness, sickness, tragedy or death — and what it means to be cared for by others.”
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.” - Out of Solitude by Henri Nouwen
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