24th Sunday in Ordinary Time (Proper 19), Year B

Wisdom cries out in the street;
in the squares she raises her voice.
~Proverbs 1:20
 
…the tongue is a fire.
~James 3:6
 
Wisdom and speech are intimately connected so say Proverbs and James. Wisdom calls out, cries out, raises her voice, reproofs, pours out her thoughts. The tongue is a fire, says James—capable of igniting new possibilities, or spreading destruction like wildfire. Blessing and curse, from the same mouth, from our mouths, from God’s mouth…to our ears.
 
We are all too aware!
 
Not many should be teachers, James warns. How grateful we are, though, for those who teach us and those we love—so often amidst fraught circumstances and societal battles. How grateful we are for those who offer words of learning and life. How grateful we are to have the power to bless and support and create the conditions for wisdom to flourish among us!
 
Come and seek the ways of wisdom. Enter into worship.
 
Readings: Proverbs 1:20-33 † Psalm 19 or Isaiah 50:4-9a † Psalm 116:1-9 † James 3:1-12 † Mark 8:27-38
 
About the Art: Olusola David, Ayibiowu. Wisdom, from Art in the Christian Tradition, a project of the Vanderbilt Divinity Library, Nashville, TN. https://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/act-imagelink.pl?RC=57583 [retrieved September 3, 2024]. Original source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artist_Olusola_David_Ayibiowu_Title_WISDOM.jpg. Painting from a 2008 solo exhibition in City Mall, Onikan, Lagos, Nigeria.

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