{"id":488,"date":"2011-06-21T01:02:01","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T01:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/experts.patheos.com\/expert\/frederickwschmidt\/?p=488"},"modified":"2011-06-21T01:02:01","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T01:02:01","slug":"wisdom-is-a-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/whatgodwantsforyourlife\/2011\/06\/wisdom-is-a-choice\/","title":{"rendered":"Wisdom is a Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>Wisdom is not an accident.\u00a0 It is not the peculiar endowment of a select few.\u00a0 It can be discovered, accumulated, cultivated, and appropriated.\u00a0 But you need to care.\u00a0 You need to pay attention.<\/p>\n<p><em>It is a choice.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Wisdom requires awareness, devotion, effort, and focus.\u00a0 You cannot age into wisdom, run into wisdom, or borrow it.\u00a0 It is not a part-time job, a hobby, a serendipity, or recreation.<\/p>\n<p><em>It is a way of life.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The fabric of life yields insights, but it requires interpretation.\u00a0 It requires a lens.\u00a0 One lens will dominate.<\/p>\n<p><em>It is a way of seeing.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<p>We can craft wisdom of our own making, or we can see the world through the eye of God.<\/p>\n<p><em>Wisdom is a choice.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisdom is not an accident.\u00a0 It is not the peculiar endowment of a select few.\u00a0 It can be discovered, accumulated, cultivated, and appropriated.\u00a0 But you need to care.\u00a0 You need to pay attention. 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