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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…
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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…
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Ballad of a Depressed Person
Wisdom Challenge: Day 6 A little sleep, a little slumber,a little folding of the hands to sleep–So shall your poverty come on you like a prowler,and your need as an armed man. Proverbs 6:10-11 (TS2018) Today’s verse inspired me to write about depression…A poetic excerpt: Imagine being sad that you woke up in the morning.…
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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).…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Wisdom Challenge.
There’s an ancient saying that all wisdom comes from YHWH. Whether you call that God, the Universe, Great Spirit I’m not here to judge. What’s true is that the fundamental principles that guide this existence apply universally to all beings– their benefits to the one that keeps them and their consequences to the one that…
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It’s no hard thing…have faith!
