This is a joyful day, but in a world of sorrow and sadness, joyous people seem foolish. If we listen carefully to the story of Palm Sunday as written by Mark, it is a foolish story. The Lord needs a colt that has never been ridden? The disciples put their cloaks on the colt for Jesus to sit on? First, men wore two pieces of clothing, a cloak and their undergarments. Second, they set Jesus on all those cloaks on a small animal. What a foolish, fun-filled story! What a foolish people! Can you see Jesus wobbling back and forth on the back of a colt beside undressed disciples and others who spread their cloaks on the road? It is not often we associate foolishness with Jesus. Yet Paul did: "For the message about the cross is foolishness ... Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world?" Our…