Scholarshipping

Look at that word up there, it's so WEIRD looking. So is the actually thing it implies. Yesterday I spent a long time checking out scholarships and writing essays to apply for them. I read a fitting verse for the subject...

"The Teacher searched to find just the right words, and what he wrote was upright and true."  

~Ecclesiastes 12:10

That's exactly what I'm going for--to search for just the right words and write what is upright and true. Hopefully it will get me some school money to be a teacher :) If yall could put some prayers into my word choices it would be much appreciated ;)

Oh, and a side note. The other night I was reading my Bible and the Bird was asleep in her bed. She starts to whimper and roll around, kinda waking up Usually I just freeze and wait for her to go back to sleep, but that night I felt like I should climb over to her bed and tell her to go back to sleep. That's when I notice a rubberband wrapped REALLY tight around her finger, which was starting to turn reddish-purple. Whew! I said a thanks to Jesus for telling me to fix it, and gave the already-asleep Bird a speech on what is a beautiful ring and what is decidedly not.

Wisdom

Solomon is newly appointed king over Israel. Got to be a stressful job, don't you think? One day he offered a thousand burnt offerings to God, and that night God appeared to him. That's what it says - God APPEARED to him! GOD appeared to him! Just think about the magnitude of that! He asked Solomon what he wanted, and told him he would grant his wish (probably where the whole fairy godmother thing derived :P). We all know what he asked for - wisdom. Not long life, not wealth, not the death of his enemies. But guess what? All these things came with wisdom in God's package! I don't bet I have God's King-of-Israel-Deluxe package, but I know whatever God package I have will be just as profitable to me as Solomon's was to him!

I am currently writing a paper for school, and am asking people this question:

If there was one word to describe God, what would it be?

The answers so far have been amazing!

Awesome

Redeemer

Savior

Friend

Holy

Indescribable (this one has been called cheap lol!)

And my favorite.... Everything

Wisdom

We all know Solomon often depicts Wisdom as a woman. They also did in the book THE SHACK where the guy meets God in person. In the very first Proverb in the book, Wisdom makes clear what happens to the ones who embrace her, and the ones that reject her. She said, "The waywardness of the simple will kill them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them." But then she says, "But whoever listens to me will live in safety and be at ease, without fear of harm." Well it makes sense! If you be wise, you're safe. If you be stupid, you're not.

But get WHERE wisdom calls out! It hit me for the first time as I read it today... "at the head of the noisy streets". Hmmm... it's no little voice while you're in bed at night - wisdom calls out in the middle of our everyday lives, urging us to make the right choice! There's another Proverb where she's on the roof of a house yelling for people to leave their simple ways. Wisdom is ALWAYS calling, but sometimes when I'm set on doing this stupid thing I choose not to hear it.

Today, keep an eye out for where Wisdom might be standing yelling!