May Wisdom Come

A Reflection on the First Reading for Sunday, June 15th, 2025:
Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity

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Proverbs
8.22-31

Thus says the Wisdom of God:

“The Lord created me at the beginning of his work,
the first of his acts of long ago.
Ages ago I was set up,
at the first, before the beginning of the earth.
When there were no depths I was brought forth,
when there were no springs abounding with water.

“Before the mountains had been shaped,
before the hills, I was brought forth --
when he had not yet made earth and fields,
or the world’s first bits of soil.

“When he established the heavens, I was there,
when he drew a circle on the face of the deep,
when he made firm the skies above,
when he established the fountains of the deep,
when he assigned to the sea its limit,
so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out the foundations of the earth,
then I was beside him, like a master worker;
and I was daily his delight,
rejoicing before him always,
rejoicing in his inhabited world
and delighting in the children of Adam.”

Pause. Pray. Reflect.

In the beginning, Wisdom lived. Free and uninhibited. Wisdom continually rejoiced before God. Wisdom received God’s delight each day. 


In my beginning, Wisdom lived in my body – guiding me to cry out when my needs were not being met, leading me to be comforted by those who would attempt to meet my needs – but were those needs ever fully satisfied? Who does my heart cry out for now?

The wisdom we receive from God is granted us in the person of His Son. Jesus is Wisdom Who gives wisdom. He is the living Wisdom Who walks and talks with me when my mind is clouded with emotion and confusion. He knows how to order my growth, at the pace in which I can receive it and learn from it. As a baby, I was innately ordered to Wisdom – it’s how He created me. Yet as I grew, many of my choices were unwise. This is not self-deprecation, but self-definition. Unwise choices do not strip me of the Wisdom Who lives in me, but rather turn my focus away from His presence. I am acting unwisely when I reject the Good – when I define myself by that which is not of God.


True Wisdom, rather, allows me to sit amidst the breathtaking beauty of creation and be drawn into its order, its regeneration, its slow-growing tranquility. It also allows me to sit in the darkness of humanity, recognizing the ache of my soul for His Light.

As today is beginning, I settle my soul in the presence of Wisdom. 
With the rising of the sun, the flowers open their petals to receive the light. 
And Wisdom comes. 
Every leaf turns in unison to face its nourishing rays. 
And Wisdom speaks. 
The faithful and steady trees reach their arms toward heaven in worship. 
And Wisdom delights in them. 


May Wisdom come to me in this way. May Wisdom be woven into the fabric of my being – my thoughts, my desires, my comings and goings – my essence. May my heart settle into the wisdom that there is need of nothing else – nothing other than that which God pours out on me. The epitome of wisdom is just this: God is everything, and He lives in me.




Lori MacDonald

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