Divine Comedy is this World's Absurdity...

I felt this was especially applicable to me and so profound...therefore, I'm posting it =)

Job 39:13a - "The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully..."

"...The Lord's quirky sense of humor, however, is more than just a laughing matter. It also poses some rather profound questions. In the world of animals it is fine to give a creature feathers and wings and two legs like a bird, and yet withhold from it the power of flight. But what about when the Lord allows this sort of thing in a human being? What about the disabled child who will never learn to walk, or perhaps never grow up at all? Do we laugh about this too? Or do we conclude that God is cruel?
Clearly the comedy in the Lord's description of the ostrich is more than just joking around. It is comedy of a higher order, of the sort Dante understood when he entitled his great and serious epic poem The Divine Comedy. This comedy is the opposite of tragedy. Such a comedy presents an ordered and purposeful worldview, as opposed to the grievous disorder, the senseless waste, of tragedy. Even though life's underlying order might not always (or often) be humanly comprehensible, nevertheless the comedic perspective believes and trusts that order is there, and so comedy always moves toward a point of resolution, toward that inevitable conclusion in which the hidden scheme of things rises to the surface and becomes manifest. For this reason the book of Job is really not a tragedy but a comedy.
Even in the best of times our world can appear, on the surface, chaotic and absurd. But comedy takes this very absurdity and puts it to work. In classical literature the device of absurdity was used to reflect the natural limitations of the human mind. Since the reality of life itself is always bigger than the mind is able to assimilate, our view of any given event is bound to be somewhat absurd. In the literature of the twentieth century, however, this truth came to be turned upside-down. To modern writers, the device of absurdity usually reflects the essential meaninglessness (as they see it) of life. But this is not at all the case with Job or with any of the other great literature of antiquity. Classically, it is not life that is absurd, but ourselves. If reality seems meaningless to us, it is because we are not dealing with a full deck.
In His response to Job the Lord does not supply any of the missing cards. All He does is to say, in effect, 'Here is the deck; learn to play with it. Learn to live without knowing everything. What does it matter whether I give you great wisdom or only a little? Compared to all there is to know, it is still only a pittance, and therefore many things are going to strike you as preposterous or even insane. So get used to it. Get used to My absurdity, and live by faith rather than by sight. Be like the ostrich: though you cannot fly, you can still flap your wings joyfully!"

My conclusion? It is a sort of freedom to be able to laugh at one's life. A light-hearted view of things touches on how awesome God is....I need to do this more often...