Because we are a people rooted in this Story and a people with a good King who brought and is bringing heaven and earth together, we are called to “go up” and do the things that will get us to enjoy more and more of God and His Story.

To skip these stories and simply read the gospels and New Testament letters is like skipping to the final act of a Shakespearian play. While you can certainly understand what happens at the final moments of the story, are able to share with your friends the conclusion of tragedy or comedy, and are even able to make deductions of what has gone on before; you will undoubtedly miss the nuances and details that make the play a thing of beauty.

We find ourselves in the story of our faith tradition at a moment of reprieve. Enough history as God’s people to have stories to reflect on. Enough history of faith to have struggles and successes. In the story, judgement and new life have been declared, and in short order—at least in page numbers—life will be very different. Yet here, in the in-between, we have the time and space necessary to consider, to ponder life with God and one another, what a whole and good life is or could be.

We find ourselves in the story of our faith tradition at a moment of reprieve. Enough history as God’s people to have stories to reflect on. Enough history of faith to have struggles and successes. In the story, judgement and new life have been declared, and in short order—at least in page numbers—life will be very different. Yet here, in the in-between, we have the time and space necessary to consider, to ponder life with God and one another, what a whole and good life is or could be.

We find ourselves in the story of our faith tradition at a moment of reprieve. Enough history as God’s people to have stories to reflect on. Enough history of faith to have struggles and successes. In the story, judgement and new life have been declared, and in short order—at least in page numbers—life will be very different. Yet here, in the in-between, we have the time and space necessary to consider, to ponder life with God and one another, what a whole and good life is or could be.

Wisdom is the skill of living into God’s story – for us that means living into God’s story in a broken world where other stories seem more real.