Sermon Illustrations for Proper 19 | Ordinary Time 24 (2021)
Proverbs 1:20-33
We live in an era where wisdom derived from elders, counts for less and less. American individualism and the decline of respect for experience and seniority in the workplace count less and less (Richard Sennett, The Corrosion of Character, pp.96-97,110). Medieval Mystic Thomas a Kempis nicely defines wisdom:
The highest and most profitable learning is the knowledge of ourselves. To have a low opinion of our own merits, and to think highly of others, is evidence of wisdom.