Quiz Some

I quiz some with my wisdom.

What a legendary line from Killah Priest. It’s clever and it’s funny. Much like the jolly Wu affiliate himself, wisdom has the effect of making one cheerful. Consider what the wisest of all has to say about the puzzley matter of wisdom:

Who is like the wise? And who knows the interpretation of a thing? A man’s wisdom makes his face shine, and the hardness of his face is changed.

Ecclesiastes 8:1

What makes the hard furrows in our puzzled brow but our confusion at things? We don’t understand and so we are overwhelmed. But when we understand a thing, we are eased and even cheered. For we are no longer in the dark.

To understand a thing is not to control it. Interpreting anything (an event, a circumstance, a saying, a person, or even ourselves) is simply seeing it and accepting that it is what it is. We can’t orchestrate the waves of providence, and we are fools to stand against them. We can only hang 10 and get pitted. So pitted.