Wisdom is Work

We have our work to do.

Which means we will need to learn how to Think and Love and Choose.

With our heads, our hearts, and our spirits.

Learn to use good, grounded, judgment.

Wisdom.

Which often partly comes from the experiences which were so Painful.

Times we were hurt, or where we hurt others. Sometimes we will have to do our best to learn what we can from experiences we are barely able to understand or reconcile.

Seek the healing we may need.

Or the healing we may need to offer.

Learn from our experiments. Some which didn’t work out. Some which we didn’t know at the time were experiments.

Learn from times in our lives where we acted impulsively or naively or immaturely. Or were overly-stressed, out-matched, under-skilled, or didn’t know as much.

Learn from the times we fell down.

Because God is the Good Parent who wants us to rise again and walk.

Not quit.

Not stay down.

Find our new voice and our new vision.

In whatever ways we are able.

Excerpt From: Stacy David Lutz. “A Necessary Heretic.” 

Prayer

One of my favorite books is called, “How to be Adult.”

David Richo. Copyright 1991.

I have recommended it countless times.  Literally thousands of times.  Over the past two decades.

I have read it countless times.  My copy is tattered and coffee-stained, and coated in underlines and side notes.

It was my book when I decided I was tired of being an adolescent.  Right about when I was 33.  When I decided I wanted maturity over excitement.  When I wanted to develop a deeper sense of strength.  When I decided to pick up my mat and walk. Trusting the strength I sought would come within a Divine Partnership of my intention, will, persistence, and finish-line determination – and the mysterious empowerment of God’s Spirit.

How to be an Adult.

It was my book when I decided I would not be defined by my Wounds, where I felt Wronged, or places I felt Worried.  

I would form my own Personal Constitution, declare my own Bill of Rights, and Declare to myself and the world that as of this day, I am in a New Chapter.

In this new chapter I will have different expectations about how the world works – not in cynicism but in grounded realism.

In this new chapter I will not ask others to do for me what I can do for myself.

In this new chapter I will study Wisdom over Passion.  Compassionate versus uncompassionate judgement.  Steady, disciplined work over frantic exercise.

David Richo.

Thank you for writing a book that meant so much to me.

Means so much to me.

Amen.