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January 25, 2012
Knee-Mail to St. Pauls family,
The sermons are focusing on “Simple Wisdom” and we’re reading through the book of Proverbs (a chapter a day) in the next month. In 1:4-5, the value of this wisdom (a knowledge that can be applied as life skills rather than information to be accumulated) is commended to the young and to the already wise.
My undergraduate work was at Emory University where I was exposed to greater, deeper thinkers than at the graduate and post-graduate levels. One professor in particular impressed me, a Dr. Buss in the religion/philosophy department. An obvious nerd, he was really brilliant which in itself, was not unusual for an Emon’s professor. What got me was being called into his office and closely probed about information used in a paper that I gleaned from a text book for a course in another discipline. He then carefully recorded and added the data to his personal card catalog of references. (I know, I know, “card catalog” dates the story!)
I received a life-long lesson from that incident; never stop learning, pursuing knowledge. What I absolutely love about the internet is the endless availability, accessibility of knowledge. Reinforcing this lesson now is a research that says learning and applying new skills actually makes the brain healthier and wards off the threat of dementia/Alzheimers.
Suddenly Proverbs seems newly relevant! Enjoy your chapter a day but read it very slowly.
Uplink: Holy Spirit, you point us to wisdom; you’re the greatest search engine ever. Reveal new insights to me, divinely inspired but earthly relevant. Amen
