Dorothy's Point Of Folly Summary

Analysis: This quote embraces, in a simple but beautiful way, everything that Dorothy was traying to teach us throughout her writings. The final goal of our lives, as Christians or not, is to love our neighbor no matter what. It’s not easy at all to be generous with all your goods, especially if you don’t have God in your life. And it’s so much harder to be generous and lovely with your enemies, so how is that possible? Well, is our commandment for salvation and we must give all our love without differences or discrimination. Sometimes it could sound crazy to love somebody that deals harm in your life, but that is the final goal: to love until the point of folly. Surprisingly, the best example is Jesus, our Lord, Himself. He loved until the point of folly, until the point of dying for a bunch
Obviously, we are all different, so we must figure out the best way for us to become saints. As well as we will try to help our neighbors, there will be times in which we will have bitter experiences. Rejections, bad attitudes, and disrespect are some forms of those experiences that we could encounter; however, we must be strong and don’t let bad occurrences overthrow our dedication. Furthermore, Dorothy points a quote in one part of the book that says that the crushed heart is the most tender and soft one, and again we can see this example in Jesus Christ. He was humiliated and offended so many times, maybe more times than anybody else; however, he is the only one who has done a sacrifice of that magnitude. This commandment is reiterated in one of the clearest passages of the Bible, in which God says that whatever we do or refuse to do to the very last of our brothers, we are doing to Him. It is not because these people remind us of Christ, but because they are Christ. Every time someone asks us for food or clothing or is sick and in need of a visit, he or she is Christ