WISDOM

Snippet

“I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.” ― Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace

Scripture

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. Proverbs 1:7 NIV

Song

Way of Wisdom Michael Card

http://youtu.be/a1YYMSP5clM

The Way of Wisdom starts out

With a step of holy fear

And it makes its way alone

By every good word that you hear

It has to do with passion

And it has to do with pain

It has to do with One

Who has both died and rose again

Died and rose again

And the Way of Wisdom is living

The Path of Peace is forgiving

Behold the Man of Meaning

Behold, He is the Lord

The way of understanding lies

In not how much you know

Where the pathway is a person

That you've come to love and so

You can stop pretending that it all depends on you

For it's not how much you love

As much as how much He loves you

How much He loves you

And the Way of Wisdom is living

The Path of Peace is forgiving

Behold the Man of Meaning

Behold, He is the Lord

And the Way of Wisdom is living

The Path of Peace is forgiving

Behold the Man of Meaning

Behold, He is the Lord

The Way of Wisdom beckons us

To find the end of fear that perfect love pursues

Wisdom did not come to simply speak the words of truth

He's the Word that makes us true

The Way of Wisdom starts out

With a step of holy fear

That's only the beginning

And there's much more that is clear

The path leads on to love

And love is fearless in its ways

For Love Himself was not afraid

To die that we'd be saved

To die that we'd be saved

And the Way of Wisdom is living

The Path of Peace is forgiving

Behold the Man of Meaning

Behold, He is the Lord

And the Way of Wisdom is living

The Path of Peace is forgiving

Behold the Man of Meaning

Behold, He is the Lord

Behold, He is the Lord

Sentence Prayer

God grant me the serenity

To accept the things I cannot change;

Courage to change the things I can;

And wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;

Enjoying one moment at a time;

Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;

Taking, as He did, this sinful world

As it is, not as I would have it;

Trusting that He will make all things right

If I surrender to His Will;

So that I may be reasonably happy in this life

And supremely happy with Him

Forever and ever in the next.

Amen.