O Wisdom from the mouth of the Most High, you fill the whole world. With strength and gentleness you order all things: come to teach us the way of prudence.
Wisdom
For wisdom is a kindly spirit,
yet she does not acquit blasphemous lips;
Because God is the witness of the inmost self
and the sure observer of the heart
and the listener to the tongue.
Wisdom 1:6
O Wisdom, who knows our inmost thoughts, our deepest corner of our heart: we are prude sons and daughters of yours. You listen to things unspoken by our lips. Search our heart, search our minds, search our soul. You fill the whole world, yet you still give us free will. We still have the choice to follow Your order or to follow our own.
We see how the world mourned when a person chose the path of death rather than life these past couple of days. You gently remind us: this is not the end. There will be restoration. A new day will come and "the dawn from on high shall come upon us".
Teach us the way of prudence
Teach us Lord to be prudent. To act with or show care and thought for the future.
Not acting like there is no tomorrow. To work as if the things that I do will last for a lifetime.
To show care for what is important, and not on petty things. To care for those who feel alone in their journey.
To think of the future. That only by living with grit and strength and determination will we see a better world ahead of us. That the city of man may become more and more like the city of God.
Amen.
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