Age and Wisdom

With age, comes wisdom. I contemplate that concept occasionally, most frequently as I near that date when I mark my birth. As I gain a year, one at time, I wait for that moment when I can feel that experience has granted me wisdom. But, this wisdom eludes me. I can not seem to get it right. What I perceive the world expects from me is the ability to get it right. And, to get it right the first time.

I observe the simple, genuine souls that occupy the pews each week in service, I listen to those that I socialize with, those that I converse with in my daily routines and I wonder about this idea, wisdom. I've encountered far more in my short life who age and never find wisdom, than those who seem to have acquired it.

Pop-pop frequently tells me, "the wisest man at the table, is often the quietest." Daddy tells me that "If you've nothing kind to say, then hold your tongue." And, I believe that it is true, "A wise man keeps his own counsel." The Lord tells me, "If any of you lack wisdom, let him ask God, who give to all men, generously without reproaching, and it will be given him." James 1:5

I'm asking....maybe I lack the ability to hear His words. “7 Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. " Matthew 7: 7-8. My knuckles are bloody and swollen, my knees worn out. I think I'm doing it wrong....