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It's not chldlike. | It's not chldlike. | ||
== Like the child saint? == | |||
The Archangel Michael first appeared to Saint Joan of Arc when she was thirteen -- no longer a child, but young, indeed. And at sixteen, when she announced her mission, she was certainly young enough to be dismissed by nearly all as mere delusioned, annoying child. When the most magnificent Maiden, ''Jeanne la Pucelle'', as she called herself, came to head the French Army she was but seventeen.-- legally, in our day, a child. | |||
My edition of the [https://www.amazon.com/Personal-Recollections-Joan-Mark-Twain/dp/B09JRGC2W5/ Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc], begins with a fascinating observation from the great Hungarian revolutionary, Louis Kosuth, <blockquote>''Consider this unique and imposing distinction. Since the writing of human history began, Joan of Arc is the only person, of either sex, who has ever held supreme command of the military forces of a nation at the age of seventeen'' </blockquote>(I had to look up Alexander of Macedon's age, and, indeed, he took the throne at age 20 and started his invasion of Asia at age 22. -- oh, and Joan had a horse given her by the Duke of Alencon, the King's brother, equal to Alexander's famed Bucephalus.) | |||
As did Jesus, Joan confounded "the wise and the learned" -- anyone, that is, who felt in any way threatened by her, which included, especially the Bishopry. | |||
Here we can flush out some meaning | |||
> wise and learned = self-interested, doubtful, distrusting, compromised | |||
> childlike = trusting, honest, pure | |||
----<u>Notes</u>: | |||
The Lord wants us to reason -- but with faith and not to blind our faith. | The Lord wants us to reason -- but with faith and not to blind our faith. | ||