wisdom

this morning i read this as part of an introduction to the book of proverbs.

wisdom is the art of living skillfully in whatever actual conditions we find ourselves.


wisdom has to do with becoming skillful in honoring our parents and raising our children, handling our money and conducting our sexual lives, going to work and exercising leadership, using words well and treating friends kindly, eating and drinking healthily, cultivating emotions within ourselves and attitudes toward others that make for peace. threaded through all these items is the insistence that the way we think of and respond to God is the most practical thing we do. in matters of everyday practicality, nothing, takes precedence over God.

i reread this a few times.

then i thanked God for His Book and prayed for wisdom...