Mother really does know best.

[cedar_grove]

And I, Wisdom, will come to you
a second time, and this time
in the form of woman. And I will
speak with you then, instructing you
about the coming times, about
the end of things and the beginning of things
which are the same, which occur
at the same time. I will tell you then
about the new time coming
when all will be changeless and good:
thus I, Wisdom, will tell you.

--Gnostic text, The Prophecy of Sophia

However she appears, you can recognize her, for your heart and soul respond immediately when you are in her presence. Hear her message today, and act upon it.

Your heart and soul respond immediately... hmmm. If this is the case - and I'm not saying that it is not - then how come so many of us, so often, (myself included), fail to recognise Her?

And then there is the second part of that also... having recognised Wisdom, why, and /how/ can we simply not act? It baffles me, but we often don't. We can sit and think... It would be wise if I ______, having recognised the touch of Lady Wisdom in our lives, and yet we still do not act... or the direct inverse, acting when we know what we do is not wise.

Are we truly so deaf, so blind, so ignorant? Or is it that we truly know ourselves so little that when our heart and soul respond we do not recognise it for what it is? Or is it the dreaded Free Will? (I know it's wise to _______ but I don't like that so I'll ________.)

You know... I've just noticed that more often than not, these meditations raise or are at least phrased more in questions than in answers. Is this because I don't wish to impose my thinking on others, so rather than make statements, I turn the statements around and phrase them as questions? Do I question in order to be humble or do I simply remain in a state of bafflement as to the answers?

I believe that it's because we're all still Her children... and like children we do not always listen...we do not always act on what we know is best. There is always a part of us that thinks we know better... and we get ourselves into trouble. There is also in some, an arrogance, not an ignorance, that goes along with that 'knowing better' - and inthose people the ignorance of Wisdom's voice is a crying shame.

I've been one of those people from time to time, and I regret it, and have regretted it every single time. They physical hurts are easy to deal with - it's the emotional ones that scar.