Posts with the tag “wisdom”

"For the commandment is a lamp and the teaching is a light...”Proverbs 6:23a It's that time of year again. You know, when it gets dark outside in the afternoon!! Ok, it's not that bad, but truthfully, the dark early evenings during the fall and winter months are at the top of my list of things I had a tortuous time readjusting to in our move back to New England. I'm not there yet. I'm still trying...  Read More

Agur can easily get overlooked in the annuls of wisdom literature. If Solomon is front and center, Agur is behind the scenes. If Solomon is mentoring others from the corner office, Agur is doing his coaching from a corner in the office basement.  Read More

One of the spiritual disciplines that I've tried to work into my life over time is reading a chapter in Proverbs that corresponds with the day of the month. It's convenient because it takes little mental strain to figure out what to read for the day since Proverbs has thirty-one chapters.   Read More

I'm reminded this week of the silence of Jesus. Our world is filled with so many words and so much noise. In our day of constant posting, tweeting, commenting, and one-upping comebacks, the art of silence sure seems to be a lost art.   Read More

I like things clean. I don't think I'm a "neat freak" but I enjoy things picked up and tidy. I don't know about you, but I find it really hard to live and work in the middle of a mess. I see a mess and my visceral reaction tends to be frustration. But God has been tea...  Read More