Dear TSJ Peeps!
It is Wednesday Wisdom (WW) day!
Do you ever feel like you are scattered into a million pieces? Or that your heart is broken into pieces?
Do you feel like you have dropped pieces of yourself along the way and cannot seem to get them all picked up, so there are holes in your heart and your inner peace easily leaks out, leaving you anxious and depleted?
Many of us often feel fragmented and and frustrated. We feel like we left our best self somewhere along the path of life, but we cannot remember where. We are too busy to even notice it until one day we wake up. And suffering a loss is sometimes our loudest wake up call… such as death, health, work, and faith itself.
I want to let you know that Solomon is aware of the many ways people suffer and I imagine you, like me, have experienced suffering.
Suffering in various forms comes with being alive. And most of it is created by us! We generally do not realize it, but it seems to be true.
Wisdom is often attained at the sand of suffering. With wisdom, we partner with God and are more able to discover meaning in our suffering. The actual event(s) of course are the same but we see them differently.
Solomon is better than an alarm clock as a wake up call. Wisdom calls us to live in this world but to remember we are just passing through and we are spiritual beings in physical bodies.
Wisdom awakens us out of the snares of unnecessary suffering. We must face the mental ways we torture ourselves, especially in the night. And we need to ask God and wise people for help.
So we must seek wisdom to find peace.
And that is what Solomon has said for a long time.
Can you believe that Solomon is in an “I told you so” frame of mind today, since I am reading Marianne Williamson’s newest book: Tears to Triumph. I have just started it and I want to slowly digest it, but her writing is so engaging it is hard to stop reading!
I am quoting some things she wrote for your thoughtful enjoyment today about facing suffering and seeking wisdom. Of course TSJ folks all know about what Solomon thinks, so you will see why he was happy to read a section on Wisdom. I am quoting from pages 14-18:
WISDOM
“Enlightenment involves a retraining of our mental muscles as we go against the emotional and psychological gravity of the fear-based mind”
“The fact that we can be heartbroken is part of our deep humanity:it is not a weakness in our character. A weakness, if anything, is our fear of looking at our suffering more authentically and our resistance to dealing with it more wisely.” …..
“Searching for those lessons [finding significance rather than resistance from suffering] is the search for wisdom, and the search for wisdom is the search for peace.”
“In today’s world, the search for wisdom is trivialized and often undervalued. Yet while reason can analyze a situation, only wisdom can deeply understand it. … The search for wisdom is a search for how to live our lives more responsibly, both as individuals and as a species. Without wisdom we often make terrible decisions. “
In searching for God, we do enter the darkness but only in order to expose it to the light. Having glimpsed the deepest darkness, we start to see the light of God more clearly. Truly, if God is anywhere, He is with us on our darkest days.”
Solomon and I want you to know that we will keep writing Wednesday Wisdom for our peeps. We hope you enjoy them and better yet, that they tickle your own imagination to 
discover what each trouble in life you face ultimately teaches you and how can it help you touch the face of God as you say “Thank you for showing your Love to me in it.”
Marianne also wrote: “The universe of love is incapable of exhaustion. It is always creating new possibilities, new varieties of miraculous opportunities. There is nothing we could ever do or that could ever happen to us—nothing, no matter how sinister— that can ultimately prevail against the Will of God. Knowing this is the dawn of understanding. Believing it is the beginning of faith. Experiencing it is the miracle of new life.”
Now, go play in the pastures with peace and joy for the rest of the day!
Margie and Solomon