Solid Places
Wisdom, it is often said, means remembering what we have always known as children and have forgotten as adults. We forget, unfortunately, because the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune” have made us acquire a crustiness about life which we mistake for “worldly wisdom”. No wonder the Lord told us that we have to become like little children to enter the Kingdom. It is not permission to regress to immaturity, but a call to see the world anew. Like children, we must re-learn to go off on adventures to look for hidden treasures, the kind that takes us inwards into our hearts. Then we shall find — in the midst of all that is elusive and fleeting in this world — some real, solid places.