Tag: Wisdom

God, Life, Writing

What Will This Experience Teach Us?

Mark Wayne
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“Experience is the most brutal of teachers but you learn, my God, do you learn” ~C.S. Lewis

So in the midst of adversity and challenges that we did not anticipate nor wish for, we can only persevere and attempt to learn from the experience. I wonder years from now what will history say about this time in which we find ourselves living and what will be said about us as individuals, nations and the world?

I pray that we learn. And use this experience to do better and to correct any mistakes in the future. Like Solomon I pray for wisdom each day in the choices I make. Those that affect my family, my friends, those I work with and others that may be touched by the ripples I create.

5 In Gibeon the Lord appeared to Solomon in a dream at night; and God said, “Ask what you wish Me to give you.”

Solomon’s Prayer

6 Then Solomon said, “You have shown great lovingkindness to Your servant David my father, according as he walked before You in truth and righteousness and uprightness of heart toward You; and You have reserved for him this great lovingkindness, that You have given him a son to sit on his throne, as it is this day. 7 Now, O Lord my God, You have made Your servant king in place of my father David, yet I am but a little child; I do not know how to go out or come in. 8 Your servant is in the midst of Your people which You have chosen, a great people who are too many to be numbered or counted. 9 So give Your servant an understanding heart to judge Your people to discern between good and evil. For who is able to judge this great people of Yours?”

God’s Answer

10 It was pleasing in the sight of the Lord that Solomon had asked this thing. ~1 Kings 3:5-9 (NASB)

May our leaders also being praying for and asking for wisdom. So, how are you doing with during this time? Are you affected by any stay at home orders?

I would love to hear your thoughts. Stay safe my friends and God bless! 😊

Life, Poetry

Searching, For What We Already Have

Mark Wayne

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The Scarecrow from the Wizard of Oz already had what he was searching for – a brain.  He was wise and intelligent even before reaching the Emerald City and presenting his request to the wizard.

Here’s why. Hanging in the cornfield it was he who told Dorothy of an idea how she could get him down. Remember, he told her that if she bent the nail holding him there he might just slide off?

We are often hanging on a question; waiting for an answer, when so many times we already have the answer, and yet…

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Searching outside
for it,
when inside
is where the vaunted treasure lies.

Keys to our hearts,
drop from
trembling hands
to lie just out of arms reach.

The lock will open,
with keys
we’ve dropped
while we look at everything but.

Opening doors
so easily,
in belief
and determination we see a future.

There is a promise
in melencholy,
in regret
we search for what we already have.

~Mark Schutter ©2015