with age comes wisdom

(a long life is a good life)

This week our family journeyed to Pennsylvania to be part of the funeral services for Erma Rader. Aunt Erma was 96, possessed great faith, never married, lived in her own home her entire life and was a blessing to multiple generations of her family. I only had the privilege of knowing her for the past 18 years or so…but I see the legacy she created in my wife and in my daughters all of whom will miss her dearly. Every family needs such a rock upon which the generations can stand. Every family needs someone to be the fount of wisdom accumulated over time.

“Then I saw that there is more gain in wisdom than in folly, as there is more gain in light than in darkness. The wise person has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness…” Ecclesiastes 2:13-14

Wisdom is more than just an inherent intellect…it’s more than just book learning and degrees hanging on the wall. Wisdom is an accumulation of knowledge over time that results in good sense and sound judgment. It’s based on the bedrock of core beliefs and framed with the experiences of our life. There is never a single point where we become “wise”…we just move along the continuum. We gain by teaching and by being taught. What a wonderful and interesting journey it can be.

Will you take the advice of Solomon and seek and value wisdom? There’s no folly in that!

Thanks for all you do.

Brian

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