Today I wrote an article about St. John of God.  The idea came from a book I am reading, Saints Behaving Badly, by Thomas Craughwell.  Like most saints, John wasn't a very nice fellow in his youth.  Obviously things changed though and in the end he became a saint.

The point being, that many of us can overcome the same bad behaviors and turn our lives around.

A reading from the Book of Wisdom in the Apocrypha:

The beginning of Wisdom is the true desire to receive teaching,

and a longing to be taught comes from a love of her;

The one who loves her will keep her laws.

Observing the laws of wisdom assures immortality,

and immortality brings one nearer still to God:

So the desire for wisdom leads to the authority of the one who rules.

Solomon’s canticle on the desire for wisdom is a beautiful song.  The desire to seek wisdom requires a self-awareness that we humans do not know enough to even begin to comprehend mystery of God.  In order to become nearer to God, we must gain wisdom.  That means never being satisfied that we found the final truth.  Seek and you shall find.  Keep seeking, and asking, and learning, ever learning. God reveals his presence in different ways to different people.   When you think you have found God, that is when your true journey begins.