The idea that of all the attributes of God, WISDOM is the one that gets the feminine article, is . . . amazing.  A big thank you, Lord, from the nuns of Cor Unum!

                  In the ninth Proverb, we see her, Wisdom, having prepared a meal and a table, and calling out to the simple and those lacking in judgment, “Come in here!”

                  She has sent out her servants, and she calls from the highest point of the city,
    “Let all who are simple come to my house!”
To those who have no sense she says,
 “Come, eat my food
and drink the wine I have mixed. 
Leave your simple ways and you will live;
walk in the way of insight.”   (Proverbs 9:3-6)

“Leave your simple ways and live!” she cries. “Walk in the way of understanding!” Many “he’s” and “she’s” could echo those words through personal experience. It is a great thing to have left foolishness behind.

                  The Scripture tells us there are other “she’s,” adulterous tempters beckoning and flirting from the doorways of life, down the alleys of distraction and destruction. WISDOM bids us keep to the path of good sense.

                  The nuns in Regina Laudis Abbey and in convents and monasteries all over the world, have put themselves in the way of finding the heart of God, and we are here in Cor Unum for just that purpose. We will find Him in the wisdom of every circumstance, if we will ever seek Him, and we will find wisdom ever in Him.  WISDOM guards our souls and gains the mind of Christ.

                  The beginning of WISDOM is the holy fear of God, and that reverence is our pursuit today, in the all the parlors, cells, chapels and corridors of Cor Unum Abbey. Perhaps that’s why wisdom gets to be “she.”  “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom (Psalm 111:10,)” and it is beautiful as was Sarah when she obeyed Abraham, calling him “lord.”  True submission beautifies men and women together.  

                  Wherever we are, wherever we are headed, WISDOM will never forsake us.  “Can a woman forget her nursing child, or fail to have compassion upon him? She may forget, but lo! I will not,” says the Lord . . . “instead, I have engraved you upon the palms of my hands; your walls are always before Me.” (Isaiah 49:15) Wisdom is with God, ever with God, and God is with us. We have seen that mother-nearness, mother nurture is His idea. Wisdom is the breast where grown-ups ought to find health and comfort and strength. We prize this “she,” and our ears are open when she speaks.

by permission, Peter Trimming

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