I'll take wisdom any day.

     I really like this quote.  I'll let it do the rest of the speaking for itself.  Perhaps in future posts I will include more of why I like them or not, perhaps not.  I'll have to figure that out when it comes.

A Choice of Instructors
"Life has given us two very effective teachers.  Both are top-flight instructors, but neither comes cheap.  While both are effective, both require something of us.  We have to choose one or the other, and if we choose neither, the second will be chosen for us.
     The teachers are Wisdom and Consequences.
     We can learn a great deal from either teacher.  I should warn you, however, of the huge difference in their instructional styles.  While Wisdom will amaze and delight us with her lessons, Consequences will leave us breathless---and not in a good way.  The truth is, Consequences is by far the tougher teacher of the two.  For one thing, Consequences' enrollment cost and ongoing tuition are sky-high.  Oh, she'll teach us well, all right---but by the time we learn her lessons, her instruction may have cost us years.  It may have cost us our marriage, our family, our job, our ministry, perhaps even our life.  Consequences has a huge back-end cost.
     In your younger years, did you ever think you were Superman or Wonder Woman . . . and then jump off a fence or a doghouse to prove it?  Not long ago a friend of mine, reflecting on his childhood, told me how his big brother convinced him he was Superboy.  Nothing could hurt him!  In fact, to prove it, his older brother challenged him to walk over to a patch of white clover and step barefoot on one of the busy honeybees attending the blossoms.
     His brother was very convincing.  My friend took his little bare feet over to the clover and trod on a bee.  He said he didn't know which hurt the most, the stinger in his foot or the realization that he'd been deceived.
     He was vulnerable after all.
     Every one of us has learned something from personal experience that has made us a little wiser.  But such lessons, lessons learned from Consequences, inflict real suffering and acute pain---and sometimes they're much, much more injurious than a bee sting." ~ Wayne Cordeiro

     I'm going to stop it there.  It goes on a bit more and if interested for more feel free to ask.  Thanks for reading.

-J