32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time – 12th November 2023
Two aspects of these readings for today draw our attention immediately.
First, am I really searching for wisdom in my life? Second, am I alert to
the presence of God and wait on that presence?
True wisdom is a way of leading a good life that is centred on the
divine. Wisdom cannot be confused with knowledge. There are lots of
people in our world who have degrees and incredible amounts of
intellectual information – but who don’t know how to live at all! Wisdom
is a gift of knowing how to live well and to live in the divine.
We can only have wisdom if we ask for wisdom and seek to live from
wisdom every day. Most of us don’t do that! We want wisdom when we
are stuck in difficult situations but in general, we live from our own
resources without paying attention to what God might want or to what
really good people have advised. Part of the teaching of the Book of
Wisdom is that we must learn how to listen to others and to listen to what
God is saying.