![]() ![]() ![]() Everything you live through helps to make you the person you are now.” I don’t understand people who hide from their past. “I’ve never tried to block out the memories of the past, even though some are painful. “The facts of life are that a child who has seen war cannot be compared with a child who doesn’t know what war is except from television.” “The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty.” “Mistakes are a part of the dues one pays for a full life.” “Cooking is an act of love, a gift, a way of sharing with others the little secrets – ‘piccoli segreti’ – that are simmering on the burners.” I Know Where I’m Going (Katharine Hepburn).We, the human community, must now right our wrongs so that we can join in Sophia’s voice song of delight in the Earth community. Her voice from the heart of the Trinity needs to touch us. We can imagine that the voice of Sophia, the one who was there before the oldest of God’s works, might be lamenting in our time. Australia has 35 endangered species and New Zealand has 28 - both countries registering threats to the survival of their native species through human actions. The National Geographic magazine claimed in 2018 that even with its widely diverse collections of animals and plants, Australia leads in extinction rates worldwide. They provide the evidence about the wellbeing of planet Earth from research in the sciences. Recent reports, such as IPBES (Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services) Global Assessment report, give us cause for concern and urgent action. It invites us to encounter Sophia at play everywhere in the world, delighting to be among the human family.īut we need also to be aware that Sophia would weep at human destruction of creation. The song draws us into the interrelationships among the divine, the human and the whole of material reality. When we think of the human destruction of so many living creatures and their habitats today we realise how far our situation is from the words of her song: "I was by your side a unique craftswoman ![]() Sophia is concerned with ecology she rejoices in the diversity of species: birds, insects, cattle and reptiles. ![]() It is easy to see the relevance of this text from Proverbs to our world today. before" that we can understand the agelessness of Sophia in relation to the apparent timelessness of the universe. Sophia already exists before life was called forth by the One who creates and shapes it. Sophia sings of the "first" unfolding of the divine design, before the deep/tehom we read about in Genesis 1:2, before the oldest of the works of the Creating One. In this song in Proverbs, Sophia draws us into the interrelationships of the universe. But encounters with neighbouring nations and more varied roles given to women expanded their imagery to include the female. Through their history the people of Israel usually named God using male imagery, Lord and King being the most common. "I was by your side", she says to the divine one, "a unique craftswoman". Sophia sings she is there - caught up in the creative activity as the foundations are laid down. Rather it is a song of praise in the voice of Sophia/Wisdom of the one who created and shapes the universe. The extract from Proverbs 8:22-31 is not typical of the maxims or proverbs that give the book its name. But it is rare to hear readings from other books in the Wisdom collection. We pray the Psalms regularly which are part of the third segment of the Bible - Wisdom Literature. We're familiar with the Pentateuch, the first five books of the Bible - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers and Deuteronomy, and the historical Narratives - from Joshua to the Books of the Kings. We seldom hear readings from the Book of Proverbs in our liturgies. When you assigned the sea its boundaries,Īnd when you laid down the foundations of the earth,ĭelighting to be among the human family." When you drew a ring on the surface of the deep When you fixed the heavens firm, I was there The countryside, or the first grains of the world’s dust "You, my God, created me when your purpose first unfolded,įrom the beginning before Earth came into being Proverbs 8:22-31 The Wisdom of God cries aloud: ![]()
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