{"id":20856,"date":"2021-12-28T10:01:35","date_gmt":"2021-12-28T15:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=20856"},"modified":"2021-12-28T10:12:53","modified_gmt":"2021-12-28T15:12:53","slug":"20856","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/?p=20856","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SXgpg2AIHKw\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Praying for Wisdom<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Father Richard encourages us to find the wisdom revealed in the paradoxical nature of reality.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On the last day of the year, I generally withdraw to pray. A few years ago, I asked myself: What should I pray for this year? What do we need in these turbulent times? Naturally I was strongly tempted to pray for more love. But it occurred to me that I\u2019ve met so many people in the world who are already full of love and who really care for others. Maybe what we lack isn\u2019t love but wisdom. It became clear to me that I should pray above all else for wisdom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We all want to love, but <strong>as a rule we don\u2019t know how to love rightly. <\/strong>How should we love so that life will really come from it? I believe that what we all need is wisdom. I\u2019m very disappointed that we in the Church have passed on so little wisdom. Often the only thing we\u2019ve taught people is to think that they\u2019re right\u2014or that they\u2019re wrong. We\u2019ve either mandated things or forbidden them. But we haven\u2019t helped people to enter upon the narrow and dangerous path of true wisdom. On wisdom\u2019s path we take the risk of making mistakes. <strong>On this path we take the risk of being wrong. That\u2019s how wisdom is gained.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It looks as if we will always live in a world that is a mixture of good and evil. Jesus called it a field in which wheat and weeds grow alongside each other. We say, \u201cLord, shouldn\u2019t we go and rip out the weeds?\u201d But Jesus says: \u201cNo, if you try to do that, you\u2019ll probably rip the wheat out along with the weeds. Let both grow alongside each other in the field till harvest\u201d (see Matthew 13:24\u201330). <strong>We need a lot of patience and humility to live with a field of both weeds and wheat in our own souls.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jesus came to teach us the way of wisdom. He brought us a message that offers to liberate us from both the lies of the world and the lies lodged in ourselves. The words of the Gospel create an alternative consciousness, solid ground on which we can really stand, free from every social order and from every ideology. Jesus called this new foundation the Reign of God, and he said it is something that takes place in this world and yet will never be completed in this world. This is where faith comes in. It is so rare to find ourselves trusting not in the systems and -isms of this world, but standing at a place where we offer our bit of salt, leaven, and light. It seems so harmless, and, even then, we have no security that we\u2019re really right. This means that <strong>we have to stand in an inconspicuous, mysterious place, a place where we\u2019re not sure that we\u2019re sure,<\/strong> where we are <strong>comfortable knowing that we do not know very much at all.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"325\" height=\"500\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-13-325x500.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20861\" srcset=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-13-325x500.png 325w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-13-195x300.png 195w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-13.png 482w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"291\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-12-500x291.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20859\" srcset=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-12-500x291.png 500w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-12-300x175.png 300w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-12-768x448.png 768w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-12.png 1908w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"160\" src=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-14-500x160.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20865\" srcset=\"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-14-500x160.png 500w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-14-300x96.png 300w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-14-768x245.png 768w, http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/image-14.png 1924w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Praying for Wisdom Father Richard encourages us to find the wisdom revealed in the paradoxical nature of reality. On the last day of the year, I generally withdraw to pray. A few years ago, I asked myself: What should I pray for this year? What do we need in these turbulent times? Naturally I was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20856"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20856"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20856\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20866,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20856\/revisions\/20866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/co2mannatoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}