“The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls…”
-“Sound of Silence” performed by Simon & Garfunkel
Wisdom is the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment. If that’s so, then what experience, knowledge, and good judgment might we find in wisdom literature in the Bible? For nine weeks, we’ll read from Proverbs, Esther, Job, Wisdom of Solomon, and the Gospel of Mark. In a season of uncertainty and high anxiety in our country and our communities, we join with our faith community, where we believe God’s presence is with us. Each week, we’ll highlight a “wisdom word” as a touchpoint for God and one another. Wisdom resides within each of it. Are we willing to share it?
An Invitation for the Fall
So let us pick up the stones over which we stumble, friends, and build altars. Let us listen to the sound of breath in our bodies. Let us listen to the sounds of our own voices, of our own names, of our own fears. Let’s claw ourselves out from the graves we’ve dug. Let’s lick the earth from our fingers. Let us look up and out and around. The world is big and wide and wild and wonderful and wicked, And our lives are murky, magnificent, malleable, and full of meaning. -Padraig O’Tuama