Hi Wonderfuls,
There is a scripture I have always loved about wisdom and growing up. "The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom. Though it cost all you have, get understanding. "-Proverbs 4:7
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I have always found this to be so profound. "Though it cost you all you have" implies that the getting of wisdom and understanding is difficult and the difficulty presents itself through confounding and often perilous situations or circumstances. And it is in this place that we get to understand. We get to know ourselves. We get to grow. We learn wisdom.
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It's our gift to understand ourselves, how our minds work, how our bodies work, how to feel our feelings and how to think our thoughts. How to use our words to forward our growth and interrupt the cycle of unknowing obscurity that feeds our pain.
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It may cost us all we have but we get to get it. We get to understand and that knowing is protection, safety and security. It births compassion and strengthens our experience of love. "With all your getting, get understanding."