The first readings from this and last Sunday come from the Wisdom literature. Being wise, like being humble, is not fashionable today. Often, if we follow reality tv, foolishness is praised as people make a spectacle of themselves to the mockery of others. True wisdom discerns between the shallow and the profound or the significant and the trivial. In God's plan for us personally and humanity, in the Resurrection, a genuine perspective by which to measure life is revealed. This is not a series of maxims or pithy sayings although the words of Scripture do give us wise advice. Rather, it is the person of Christ Jesus who gives us the insight we need. Saint Paul tells us: "He (the Father) is the source of your life in Christ Jesus, who became for us wisdom from God, and righteousness and sanctification and redemption, 'Let the one who boasts, boast in the Lord'." (1 Cor 1: 30-31) Thus, the key to true humility and wisdom is to be found in relationship with Christ Jesus. It is through prayer and journeying with Jesus in our everyday lives that we are not going to simply aspire to sporadic moments of wisdom or insight but to integrate God's attitudes and values in a wise way of life so we are not drawn into harmful attachments especially to material things. True detachment and wisdom means we perceive our possessions not as defining us but as being there to serve the purposes of the Lord: "So therefore, none of you can become my disciple if you do not give up your possessions." (Lk 14: 23)
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