Crazy Life Stories

  One day people asked Jesus one more stupid question: What is the Greatest Commandment?  Jesus gave an impossible answer - He didn’t come up with it, he repeated some old stuff tracing back to Moses:   “‘Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. This is the first and greatest commandment.”  Was it a joke?  In the Bible, it’s written in Deuteronomy Chapter 6 after a caveat about fearing God and complying with his various commandments and prescriptions. Fear, Obey, Love! In that order!   In the same chapter, the Good Lord tells the people of Israel that he will give them, I quote “a land with large, flourishing cities they did not build, houses filled with all kinds of good things they did not provide, wells they did not dig, and vineyards and olive groves they did not plant”  As for the people who lived in these cities and houses, just destroy them, says the Lord.  If Moses was in touch with a Special Power From Above, it was the God

  When I was twenty-one, I found a job in a psychiatric hospital. I worked there for two years as an auxiliary nurse. Auxiliary was the lowest rank in the hierarchy. Lower than that you’re just ill! I am still thinking of the people I met there… Let me introduce them to you.    Mauricette was about thirty years old but she looked sixteen, the age she was trapped by schizophrenia. She wore that kind of dull clothing you wear when you’re an inmate in a psychiatric hospital, she wore socks but no shoes, she had shoulder length dark and untidy hair and she was perpetually possessed by acute anger. She spent her days walking to and fro in the doorways or turning round the tables- always anticlockwise. Her fists clenched, she was churning out an unceasing string of the angriest and crudest words… Her anger is my anger.   One day Mauricette stood in front of me in the middle of the path, hands joined over her head, on one leg as if practising a yoga stance called “the tree” Sh