Wisdom is one of those tricky words. It is frequently conflated with cleverness or even pragmatism and it really isn’t related to either of those. We are talking about wisdom today because our Old Testament lesson, about Solomon, and our Epistle lesson, Paul telling to live wise rather than unwise lives, are very much thematically […]
Beyond another list
We like to tell ourselves we don’t like rules but really, most of us do. We like rules because they make for a predictable world and who doesn’t want that? I don’t know anyone who is looking for anarchy on the roads for example. No one wants traffic lights to mean whatever anyone wants them […]
Change happened
Many of us don’t like change. I’m one of them. Change, in my mind mind, equates to chaos and general upset, neither of which I like. But whether or not we like change, we have changed. We have gotten older, our weight and hair quantity may have changed along the way, our opinions about all […]