At its deepest level, Wisdom is a female symbol for the very mystery of God. She is the personification of God’s presence and activity in the created world. She lures God’s creatures along the right path in life. She delights in human beings. She is God’s creative energy, involved with the world.
May Wisdom enlighten all of us to the power of God’s gracious, patient love already enveloping us in her open arms today.
--Patricia Smith, RSM
Image source: Full-page illustration of Sapientia (Wisdom),12th century. Wisdom is the central figure, between the figures of Christ (above), Zechariah, father of John the Baptist and the patriarch Jacob (below), David and Abraham, Malachi and Balaam, Isaiah, and Daniel (to the left and right, respectively), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Wisdom
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