Jokes are the code of a tribe. If you get the joke, you are a part of the tribe.
Jokes are the truth of every group. If you know the jokes, you know what’s going on.
Jokes keep people together. If you have no jokes, you lose people.
Jokes are not really the secret. Laughter is.
Whatever brings laughter, brings joy – the wellspring of vitality. Without laughter, life as it is, is unbearable.
– Osasu Oviawe
A human being.
Strong and weak.
Perfect and incomplete.
One and an alternative.
Beautiful and masked.
Resilient and vulnerable.
Enough and wanting.
Being and doing.
– Osasu Oviawe
Psalms 51:1-2, 10-11, 16-17
Have mercy on me, O God, according to thy steadfast love; according to thy abundant mercy blot out my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin! Create in me a clean heart, O God, and put a new and right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence, and take not thy holy Spirit from me. For thou hast no delight in sacrifice; were I to give a burnt offering, thou wouldst not be pleased. The sacrifice acceptable to God is a broken spirit; a broken and contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.
Homily:
We need God, now, not tomorrow.
We need God, now, not yesterday.
We need God, now, more than ever.
We need God, now, not for our selfish ends.
We need God, now, not for our possessions.
We need God, now, more than ever.
In a world of prescriptions, we need our Creator.
In a world with an end, we need a progenitor without end.
In a world hurrying to the end, we need stillness.
God is. We are.
We are, because God is.
God is, before we are.
Prioritising the created over the creator, disconnects availability from utility.
Today, no matter where you are, stop and pray the psalm above.
Like in the story of the prodigal son, our Father is waiting to welcome us, if we only choose to return home.
