Peace & Poetry

Category: Wisdom Challenge

  • The Power in Giving

    The Power in Giving

    It’s better to give than to receive.

  • These 3 Things will Keep You Broke

    These 3 Things will Keep You Broke

    When it comes to finances, I’ve been up and I’ve been down. Here’s 3 things that were keeping me broke.

  • Poem: On Wisdom’s Path

    Poem: On Wisdom’s Path

    Don’t fret my soul, You’ll have your laugh; As all men do, On Wisdom’s path…

  • Only Black or White

    Only Black or White

    Wisdom Challenge: Day 8 Insights from Chapter 8– …all those who hate [Wisdom] love death. Proverbs 8:36 (NKJV) I remember sitting in his office– The dim lighting–The stick figures and dinosaurs doodled on the marker board–The big box of crayons (the kind with the sharpener on the back) plastered with a Marine Corps sticker proudly…

  • Here Name was Belvedere

    Here Name was Belvedere

    Wisdom Challenge: Day 7 Insights from Chapter 7– With her enticing speech she caused him to yield,with her flattering lips she seduced him.Immediately he went after her, as an ox goes to the slaughter… Proverbs 7:21-22 (NKJV) My Little Secret My longest streak of getting drunk every single day was 30 days– I believe it…

  • So You Want to be a YouTuber.

    So You Want to be a YouTuber.

    Wisdom Challenge: Day 5 Insights from Chapter 5– Drink water from your own cistern,And running water from your own well. Proverbs 5:15 (NKJV) Stay in your lane! In the YouTube space– behind the scenes– you’d often hear people say stay in your lane. Usually the exchange is made between peers creating content in a similar…

  • Wisdom Challenge: Day 4

    Wisdom Challenge: Day 4

    Insights from Chapter 4– Wisdom is the principle thing; therefore get wisdom. And in all your getting, get understanding. Proverbs 4:7 Get wisdom! Get understanding! This is one of my favorite verses in the entire Bible. I want to break out the dictionary today… Wisdom: the right use or exercise of knowledge. Webster, Noah (1828).…

  • Wisdom Challenge: Day 3

    Wisdom Challenge: Day 3

    Insights from Chapter 3– Do not devise evil against your neighbor,For he dwells by you for safety’s sake. Do not strive with a man without cause,If he has done you no harm. Do not envy the oppressor,And choose none of his ways; Proverbs 3:29-31 These three verses seem to serve as metaphors for my personal…

  • Wisdom Challenge: Day 2

    Wisdom Challenge: Day 2

    Insights from Chapter 2– If you seek her as silver, And search for her as hidden treasures, Then you would understand the fear of YHWH, and find the knowledge for Elohim. Proverbs 2:4-5 Nothing that’s good in life comes easily. In many ways it’s almost as though the hardship and persistence in the pursuit proves…

  • Wisdom Challenge: Day 1

    Wisdom Challenge: Day 1

    Insights from Chapter 1– …they ambush their own lives. Such are the ways of everyone greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners. Proverbs 1:18-19 As an entrepreneur and a business owner, I’m constantly faced with the temptation to compare myself to others… People who are more successful than me– People who…