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Wednesday, 8 January 2025

Wisdom and madness and folly

 "I applied my heart to knowing wisdom and to knowing madness and to knowing folly, and this too is a chasing after the wind.

For an abundance of wisdom brings an abundance of frustration, So that whoever increases knowledge increases pain."

- Ecclesiastes 1:17,18

The more you understand, is it not true the more frustrated you become with what we have done?

Doesn't it become all the more frustrating that we can't just do things that make sense,

More frustrating that we insist on continuing such harm?

And is it not because of love that you feel this way?

Do you not love this life?

Do you not love it's chaos that it descends to before forming together again into fundamental patterns that repeat over and over again?

Do you not love the spin of the earth,

The rise and fall of each day happening again and again?

The growth of every new generation of trees,

The pulse of this planet a

nd its seasons?


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