Live!

To those without sense Wisdom says,

"Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.

Lay aside immaturity, and live, and walk in the way of insight."  Proverbs 9: 5-6

  

Wisdom, the sacred feminine, proffers a holy invitation.  

“Come,” she says, “Eat of my bread, drink of my wine. Live!”

Ecclesiastes echoes this, “eat and drink and be merry, for this will go with us in our toil through the days of our life.” (Ecclesiastes 8:15)

We are invited to feast enthusiastically on life, to celebrate it!  The Puritans, Calvinists, and ascetics missed these verses, or avoided them all together. And, occasionally, in our desire to “worship God in the beauty of holiness,” some of us may have stumbled on the piety scale and concluded life must all bowed heads and gray clothes.

“Not so!” says Wisdom.  Yes, lay aside debauchery and licentiousness, for these numb our sensibilities and distort our perceptions. But for all else, Wisdom suggests, we celebrate life, and in so doing, offer our praises and thanksgivings to God for all the gifts that have been bestowed upon us. 

Do not simply endure..... LIVE!