Yesterday was April Fool's Day.

That was only part of the story.

There is a negative side of foolishness and there are many references to moral foolery in the book of Proverbs.

There is also the paradoxical embrace of the accusation of being a fool that we own for ourselves in Paul's writings. We are fools for Christ's sake as the approximation of human foolishness is met by the wisdom of the cross.

"What kind of fool am I?"

On the human and negative side, I feel most foolish when I make pronouncements, applications, and pontificating statements on faulty premises that time, memory, and mush have mixed into one cognitive soup that has hardened into a slab of concrete assumption over the years.

It is the dark side of getting older and wiser.

Alas, I have become my own illustration and I find it humbling.

I became pastor of my current church on April 1, 1996. Indeed it was April Fool's Day.

I keep insisting, even after realizing I was wrong, that it was also Easter Sunday.

I just realized again, that I was off a week.

Memory , unreliable as it is, embarrasses and humble us.

I am humbled. I didn't seek humility. I stumbled onto it. I suppose that is a good thing.

Proverbs 11:2

"When pride comes, then comes disgrace, but with humility comes wisdom." (New International Version (c) 2011)