Weekend Kindness
Reaching Others Through Kindness

This proverb seems to be obvious, but given the current cultural climate it bears repeating:

Hear, my son, your father?s instruction, and forsake not your mother?s teaching, for they are a graceful garland for your head and pendants for your neck.
((The Holy Bible : English standard version. 2001 (Pr 1:8?9). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.))

The relationship between a child and parent differs over time.  Children start out believing everything a parent says, and parents are the child?s world.  Children then begin to have other sources of information other than the parents.  And then the young person starts to wonder if his parents ?know anything.?  It then turns full circle and the child (now adult) wonders why she didn?t ask her parents for more advice when she was younger.

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The book of Proverbs opens with a call to those that would be wise.  It gives an introduction to the material that will be found therein, and invites the reader to ?increase in learning and to obtain guidance.?

The first actual proverb is found in verse 7:

The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.1

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1. The Holy Bible : English standard version. 2001 (Pr 1:7). Wheaton: Standard Bible Society.

This month we?re going to start something new.  The book of Proverbs is an interesting book in that much of it is worded as a father would say these things to his son.

The main author was blessed with wisdom, and that wisdom is still relevant today, and it?s worth looking through these bits of wisdom to see what we can gain and learn.

So, starting in the month of May, and continuing as long as there is interest, I would like to look at different pieces of wisdom, working our way through the passage, and see what we learn along the way.