Qestion for LOO scholars....

[Sacred Fool]

 
St. Teresa of Avila was known to be a feisty lady.  Once, when traveling by ox cart from her monastery to someplace else, as she was crossing a forest stream the rear wheel of the cart go stuck behind a large rock.  She got into the stream and began rocking the cart, trying to free it, when she lost her footing and fell down into chest-deep water.  The water was cold and she knew the weight of it in her robes would increase her own weight and so make it even harder to free the cart.  So, she loudly expressed her disapproval that God would allow such a thing to happen to someone who was trying so hard to do His work.  And then the clouds parted and a voice came from On High saying, "You know, Teresa, that this is how I treat my friends."  And St. Teresa thundered back, "Yes, and it's no wonder that you have so few of them, is it?"