we need to abandon the idea that wisdom is knowing everything--the whys, the wherefores, the how-tos. Wisdom is often more subtle, both far simpler and exceedingly more complex. For wisdom requires the discerning, the listening to, the acknowledgement of nudges and notions, of senses and sensations, of the minute and what we often mistakenly assume is the mundane. Wisdom means listening to the still, small voice, the whisper that can be easily lost in the whirlwind of busyness, expectations, and conventions of the world.... ...as Robert McAfee Brown once wrote, "We must live with the possibility that decisions made in good faith will turn out to be disasters. If so, then the movement of grace will consist in providing enough power to turn even a disaster toward good and useful ends.

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Jean M. Blomquist: "we need to abandon the idea that wisdom is knowing everything--the whys, the wherefores, the how-tos. Wisdom is often more subtle, both far simpler and exceedingly more complex. For wisdom requires the discerning, the listening to, the acknowledgement of nudges and notions, of senses and sensations, of the minute and what we often mistakenly assume is the mundane. Wisdom means listening to the still, small voice, the whisper that can be easily lost in the whirlwind of busyness, expectations, and conventions of the world.... ...as Robert McAfee Brown once wrote, "We must live with the possibility that decisions made in good faith will turn out to be disasters. If so, then the movement of grace will consist in providing enough power to turn even a disaster toward good and useful ends."

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Abandon	Acknowledgement	Assume	Brown
Busyness	Complex	Consist	Conventions
Decisions	Disaster	Disasters	Discerning
Easily	Ends	Enough	Even
Everythingthe	Exceedingly	Expectations	Faith
Good	Grace	Howtos	Idea
Knowing	Listening	Live	Lost
Made	Mcafee	Means	Minute
Mistakenly	Movement	Mundane	Must
Need	Notions	Nudges	Often
Once	Possibility	Power	Providing
Requires	Robert	Sensations	Senses
Simpler	Small	Still	Subtle
Toward	Turn	Useful	Voice
Wherefores	Whirlwind	Whisper	Whys
Wisdom	World	Wrote

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we need to abandon the idea that wisdom is knowing everything--the whys, the wherefores, the how-tos. Wisdom is often more subtle, both far simpler and exceedingly more complex. For wisdom requires the discerning, the listening to, the acknowledgement of nudges and notions, of senses and sensations, of the minute and what we often mistakenly assume is the mundane. Wisdom means listening to the still, small voice, the whisper that can be easily lost in the whirlwind of busyness, expectations, and conventions of the world.... ...as Robert McAfee Brown once wrote, "We must live with the possibility that decisions made in good faith will turn out to be disasters. If so, then the movement of grace will consist in providing enough power to turn even a disaster toward good and useful ends. - Jean M. Blomquist