Okay, I guess I was a bit vauge. Especially since I didn't start out by answering my own question. I wasn't trying to ask "How did you get into clown ministry?" or even "Why did you get into clown ministry?" I have yet to see anyone here not answer those question's in their intro thread.
What I am trying to ask about is the relationship between your clowning and your spiritual life. How you fold it into your personal relationship with God. How it affects your soul and spirit, and the the spirits of people around you when clowning. Whether it has changed how you view the world...
For me, it has helped a great deal with patience and humility. It is has helped me with love towards those who mock me. It has helped me exist much more in the present where I am with what I have, like a lilly in the feild. It has helped still my mind some (despite all philosophical threads to the contrary). It all in all has let me not take myself so seriously in all those intellecutally vain ways which I am inclined to do.
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Paboberto
Formerly Snugglesnort
"Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit." -- Aristotle
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