At one time, in the West, virtue (moral goodness) was valued for its own sake. Sadly, that clarity has faded. Now, we practice, not virtue so much as “virtue signalling”: the conspicuous display of a politically correct position so as to reassure your in-crowd of your bona fides. It’s more
Joy, for most of us, fluctuates with our circumstances. When things are going well, we’re happy. We have joy. But everyone has a bad day now and then. And some people live with seemingly impossible burdens and sorrows. Most people would agree that joy and sorrow are incompatible. But not
All societies have acknowledged and practiced prayer of some kind to one or another deity. The contrary claim of atheists notwithstanding, to be human is to worship and thus to recognize the presence of a being greater than oneself. Given that, it’s a natural next step to ask that deity
What path are you on? Where is your life taking you? The previous post ended with a look back. In this post we’ll turn around and look ahead. Many people would do well to become familiar with a little-used English word: prolepsis. According to Britannica, a prolepsis is “a figure of
Wisdom is not the same thing as being smart. Who’s the smartest person in history? Albert Einstein? Stephen Hawking? Marilyn vos Savant? We all admire geniuses. In fact, human intelligence is a gift from God. But there’s something even better than intelligence. The Bible places a higher value on wisdom
In Matthew 11:18-19 and 23:34-36, we find Christ alluding to himself in the voice of wisdom. Like the plaintive cry of wisdom in Proverbs, we hear the lament of Christ, the Perfect Light, as he sits looking over the city of Jerusalem (Matt. 23:37): “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, the city that
In addition to being the greatest teacher of the masses, he also discipled the few. He “hung out” with the twelve disciples for three years, eating with them, praying and worshipping with them, modeling the life of the kingdom of God for them, walking with them, and answering their questions.
The sages from the East spent months, perhaps a year or two, traveling great distances following the star until they found the Perfect Light – Wisdom himself. The Christ child was wisdom incarnate. The baby that the wise men discovered, while being God, was every bit a human child. Like
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