{"id":7513,"date":"2018-11-24T18:26:34","date_gmt":"2018-11-24T22:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7513"},"modified":"2018-11-24T18:43:22","modified_gmt":"2018-11-24T22:43:22","slug":"the-path-of-wisdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/?p=7513","title":{"rendered":"The Path of Wisdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Evans-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Evans-9.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7519\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Evans-9.jpg 800w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Evans-9-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Evans-9-768x510.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The aim of wisdom literature is to uncover something true about the nature of reality in a way that makes the reader or listener wiser.  In the Bible, wisdom is rarely presented as a single decision, belief, or rule, but rather as a &#8220;way&#8221; or &#8220;path&#8221; that the sojourner must continually discern amid the twists and turns of life.<\/p>\n<p>I had a college professor who assigned the book of Proverbs to his Psychology 101 class, instructing us to circle in our Bibles every appearance of the word <em>way<\/em> or <em>path<\/em>.  The point, he said, is that wisdom isn&#8217;t about sticking to a set of rules or hitting some imaginary bull&#8217;s-eye representing &#8220;God&#8217;s will.&#8221;  Wisdom is a way of life, a journey of humility and faithfulness we take together, one step at a time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Rachel Held Evans, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sonderbooks.com\/Nonfiction\/inspired.html\">Inspired<\/a><\/em>, p. 96-97<\/p>\n<p>Photo: Burg Lahneck, Germany, August 22, 2004<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The aim of wisdom literature is to uncover something true about the nature of reality in a way that makes the reader or listener wiser. In the Bible, wisdom is rarely presented as a single decision, belief, or rule, but rather as a &#8220;way&#8221; or &#8220;path&#8221; that the sojourner must continually discern amid the twists [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guidance","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonderbooks.com\/sonderquotes\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}