28th Sunday of Ordinary Time

Wisdom Wis.7:7-11

When I was young I thought I knew it all. 

Who doesn’t at 21!

When you are 21 you DO know everything 

The problem though is that your world is rather small at 21. 

So there is really not that much to know. 

But then as you get older and the world gets bigger

There is more to know. 

 A lot more!

And That life has more questions than answers. 

And in the face of Life’s questions our knowledge is not enough 

What we need is Wisdom. 

Wisdom gives our knowledge the ability to make the right choices. 

To see things more clearly. 

Wisdom is to knowledge 

What oil is to a car or protein is to an athlete. 

Without it a person is not going to get too far. 

And the beginning of Wisdom is Silence. 

Someone who talks too much really has nothing to say. 

But it is not only silencing our lips

But silencing our passions and desires, our fears and anxieties. 

Because our passions and fears and desires and anxieties 

Cloud and distort our thinking. 

And when we silence everything 

we can more wisely know what to say and where to go. 

And this is what many early Christians did. 

They went out into the desert and separated themselves from all the noise so that they could better hear the voice of God. 

Many of us cannot go out into the desert

But we can walk out into the fields.  

Or Sit in an empty church. 

And in the silence Wisdom will begin to speak!