In today's first reading, Wisdom 7: 22b-8:1, we are told that "Wisdom is a spirit, intelligent, holy, unique, manifold,..., unstained, certain, not baneful, loving the good,...,beneficent, kindly, firm, secure, tranquil, all-powerful, all-seeing, and pervading all spirits, though they be intelligent, pure and very subtle. For Wisdom is mobile beyond all motion, and she penetrates and pervades all things by reason of her purity....
Wisdom, I believe, is God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. "[S]he, who is one, [three persons in the one God] can do all things, and renews everything while herself perduring; and passing into holy souls from age to age, she produces friends of God and prophets...."
St. John says to us in 1 Jn 4:4 that we "are from God and [we] have in [us] one who is greater than anyone in the world. That "one who is greater than anyone in the world," I believe, is Wisdom, God, our Lord and Savior. Why is it, I ask, that we encounter within ourselves and others "a spirit, intelligent, holy, unique...not baneful, loving the good,...,beneficent, kindly, firm, secure, tranquil"? Are we not encountering in ourselves and others God, from all good comes?
Thank you God for your intimacy with us!
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