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Right now I am in a rut with writing, so I like to take my favorite book, the Bible, and just run with whatever I come up with. 

Currently, I am personifying Wisdom as a lady, as described in Proverbs, and exploring the entire book through that lens. Here is the introduction that I made.

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What eye has seen the fair lady, and what ear has heard her sweet words? She communicates through challenging riddles, yet she provides guidance to those who seek her guidance. 
Our Lady Wisdom is a high and holy figure who represents God in human life. She is in the shadows watching and hoping that she is allowed to do good for those that are around her. 
She knows she must hide because if she reveals her face, Mister Foolish will attack and kill her. His ego is too large to fit through a doorframe. His ego won't allow her to exist in the same space. Lady Wisdom feels the same way. 
So forced to hide in the shadows, she does her work. 

 

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Lady Wisdom will allow those who seek her face to see and know her. She changes shape and whatever style of hair she wants to. She is always beautiful to whoever looks at her. 
Knowing Lady Wisdom isn’t just for the smart. She holds no judgment on that part; she seeks after those that seek after her. Whether they're smart or dumb, She extends a warm welcome to them. 

 

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1 hour ago, Nissa of Scadrial said:

That's amazing 😄

Thank you, I will post more once I write it. Ran out of time this morning. I think I will keep posting like this. Should get longer in later chapters for one post. Right now its aspects of Wisdom. 

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Lady Wisdom can be a cruel and harsh teacher. She has no patience for those under Mister Foolish's rule. 

She knows that only those that want to be taught can learn anything at all. One has to be humble to learn, and that goes against everything that Mister Foolish stands for. Ego and pride take precedence above all else. If anything attacks those pillars of their faith, they are targeted and attacked. 

Lady Wisdom weeps for those in the grasp of Mister Foolish, for there is nothing she can do, and that makes her terribly sad. 

 

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Lady Wisdom's words can be difficult to grasp, but they're so sweet when you do. They satisfy the intellectual curiosity of those who seek knowledge. The pursuit of knowledge serves as the foundation for wisdom. 
Like roots of a tree, they are hidden for a time but sprout and bring forth fruit that sustains. 
Wisdom takes time to learn since it is knowledge applied. She is loyal and will always be by your side, and she is something that you can count on. 
She wants you to understand her, but she also knows her worth. She will be on your level and walk with you, but she will not force herself on someone who does not want her. 

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Lady Wisdom knows that the world is largely unfair. That justice falls by the streets like trash to be thrown out. One reason or the other, Mr. Foolish finds a way into the court systems, and judgment is prevented and justice is mocked. Equity is largely ignored. 
Justice should go to those that deserve it, and occasionally it does not. Therefore, judgment is prevented since it's a process that leads to justice. 
Equity is not achieved because justice and judgment fail. 
Lady Wisdom knows that this is a battlefield that she has been fighting for years. Sometimes she wins, sometimes she loses. It will probably be like this until she is called home for the final judgement, and after she can work in peace away from Mister Foolish. 

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Lady Wisdom is a friend to those that are simple. She is a friend to those who seek her face. They may not know much and may never have a means of knowing all that much but for the context of their lives. She can work and wonders what she can do. 
Like a painter with a canvas, she can paint a beautiful masterpiece with someone that allows her to do so. 
Mr. Foolish tries to sweep in and tell them that they are not masterpieces and that, in fact, they are a waste of space. A burden on those around them. 
Some believe in Mister Foolish more than Lady Wisdom, and that upsets Lady Wisdom. She knows they can do just about as much as anyone else can. 
That for these that also seek after her face, see that these children are beautiful and that they are priceless. To be defended at all costs. 
Lady Wisdom puts her wings around those of a simple mind like a mother hen with her chicks. 
Mister Foolish hunts like a crazed wolf looking for who he can eliminate to satisfy his crazy ideas. 

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Lady Wisdom loves children who learn with humbleness. She loves the opportunity that is growing with those that seek her face. 
It is why she came down from her place in heaven in the first place to relate with mortal man. Even those that do not believe in her, she relates to. Anyone that seeks to better their lives or that betterment of others, she is there walking beside them. 
Children often make mistakes, and that is where she best shines, for if a person accepts that they can make a mistake, they are humble and can be taught. 
Mister Foolish often leads children down paths that lead to death. Lady Wisdom knows this, and she cries when she sees one like that. It's like each step they take is one closer to their doom. Lady Wisdom wishes no one should suffer that fate, but what can she do? She won’t force someone to seek her face. 

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Lady Wisdom loves groups of wise friends. Together they steer their ship in life to avoid the storms of life, and when storms can't be avoided, they pierce the veil of the storm together. Guiding each other down the sea of life with love and hope. 

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Lady Wisdom knows where she comes from and longs to go back , but she has work to do here. 
She desires to put respect for her God into the hearts of man. She knows that there will be just a remnant of those that choose to do so. Still, even if it was just one person, she would do her work. 
Those that say they are of her but watch numbers as if they have meaning as of Mister Foolish. Lady Wisdom knows that if one person is in front of her seeking her help, she will give everything. While Mister Foolish picks and chooses and often lies to the person who is seeking help and in fact gives them death. 
Lady Wisdom seeks to bring life to people, and she works hard at it. 

(Pro 1:1)  The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
(Pro 1:2)  To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
(Pro 1:3)  To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
(Pro 1:4)  To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
(Pro 1:5)  A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
(Pro 1:6)  To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
(Pro 1:7)  The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.

(KJV Bible)
 

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Lady Wisdom knows the unique relationship between parents and their children. That it's supposed to be something special and benefit everyone involved. 
Yet she also knows that it does not always work out that way. Mister Foolish is at work, and abuse happens, which just shoots them in the foot for no reason at all. The nonsense of abuse brings tears to Lady Wisdom's eyes as she hears the cries of these hurting children. 
Hoping in her heart that one will come to intercede on their behalf, that someone will care like she does to rescue these children from these fools. 
That took what was given to them and treated it like garbage. As if children are just a burden to be carried and something to straighten out, not seeing them for what they are—just a tiny, defenseless person that loves them because their world is tiny. They don’t know any better. 
Lady Wisdom longs to suffer the children to come to her. She invites them to sit in her house and share a meal with her. She wants to bring them in not to hurt them more than they already have been but to heal them, to teach them that this isn’t the way that things have to be. That’s because somebody took a duty given by God lightly, thinking that they don’t have to and they can be different. 
With her by their side, she is ready to fight their battles with them. She is committed to guiding them through their challenges and enabling them to live a life beyond their wildest dreams. 

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Lady Wisdom understands the motivations of those who harm others solely for the sake of material gain. Taking a human life for something that will be spent or just rot away. Sending a priceless soul to the afterlife for something that has a monetary value is a grave injustice. 
"Priceless" depends on how you look at it; it could be a useful term for something of great wealth or just completely worthless since it's not gauged. What is the worth of a human soul? 
Lady Wisdom thinks that that worth is very great and that it shouldn’t be thrown away for something so temporal as money or any other object. 
Mister Foolish thinks life is cheap and that you should take all that you can. Religion is his favorite weapon to use. Oh, how easy it is to get people to give their lives to him through the lies of a snake in human skin. 
That only care about their own houses to fill them with their ill-gotten spoil. Stupidly big houses that are only open to them, making the pagans look at them and see Christianity as a whole as a scam. 
They are under Mister Foolish's trust in their god of greed. Telling each other to put everything into one purse. Which is a dumb idea for anything, especially for money. 
They enjoy these so much that they make haste to do so. They don’t think of the consequences of their actions; they just do what they think needs to be done. Afterwards, when everything is falling apart, they start blaming others. 
Anything so that they cannot be held responsible for their actions and that they can keep doing what they want to do. No matter who it hurts. 
Not knowing that it is themselves that they are hurting. Their actions are tearing down their lives; everything that makes life worth living, they are hurting that. In the end, they were left with nothing, bled of every blessing that they spat on. 
Lady Wisdom knows this, and she tries day and night to guide people away from this. A few fall from her grasp, and she cries for those, but she must go on. For those that she can help. 

(Pro 1:8)  My son, hear the instruction of thy father, and forsake not the law of thy mother:
(Pro 1:9)  For they shall be an ornament of grace unto thy head, and chains about thy neck.
(Pro 1:10)  My son, if sinners entice thee, consent thou not.
(Pro 1:11)  If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
(Pro 1:12)  Let us swallow them up alive as the grave; and whole, as those that go down into the pit:
(Pro 1:13)  We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
(Pro 1:14)  Cast in thy lot among us; let us all have one purse:
(Pro 1:15)  My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:
(Pro 1:16)  For their feet run to evil, and make haste to shed blood.
(Pro 1:17)  Surely in vain the net is spread in the sight of any bird.
(Pro 1:18)  And they lay wait for their own blood; they lurk privily for their own lives.
(Pro 1:19)  So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
 

  • 5 months later...
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1. Oh Lord, dread sinks in my bones. My broken heart cries out to you. My refuge in the midst of this agony that is ripping my soul apart. 
2. Horrified and dismayed by the choices of my forefathers. Mortified by the results that are ruined, oh Lord, look and see. Judge not, and have mercy on me. 
3. These dogs that want to bereave me of my life. Like they have of yore. They are enthusiastic in their zealousness. 
4. They are content because they have ruled my bloodline for generations; they are enthralled at the downfalls of my family. 
5. Oh lord, my soul cries out, "Break the teeth of my enemy." 
6. Like rain falling on my soul, I feel a father’s tears. I am awed that your love is sympathetic. 
7. You are not apathic to my outrage. That you are livid, and my heart is jubilant about that. 
8. Enlivened to make differences, though these dogs circle me like they did you. Yet I am tranquil, for you walk with me. 
9. Dogs bark exasperatedly, yet that brings me joy, for I am getting away. 
10. With you, they don’t have power over me; I can rest under your shadow knowing I will be different. I can build something that will last. 
11. No matter how irate the enemy gets, he can trouble my family no more. 
12. My heart cries out to you that you are worthy no matter what happens; even if it's shedding blood under your shadow, it's all tranquil and worthy of your name. Amen. 

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