chasing the wind

I am beginning to believe Solomon in Ecclesiastes when he cried, "Meaningless! Meaningless! All is meaningless!" [read in context of the whole book]

When I first started studying the Wisdom Literature a year and a half ago in college, I didn't understand it. (Ha, still don't.) I couldn't even comprehend what the word "wisdom" meant. I read the Scriptures discussing 'lady wisdom' and the like, but that didn't help me at all.

What if I look around the world and think no one is wise? Everything looks pretty messed up to me. Now where do I find wisdom?

There is a confusion that must be addressed. There is a difference between wisdom and good advice. Wisdom is constant while good advice is subjective. Good advice is dependent on the situation. Wisdom is not.

There really is nothing new under the sun. We're never satisfied. Nothing will ever be enough. We chase the wind in circles thinking it will lead us to castles in the sky when really we only might end up finding castles in the sand. And we're not even back where we started. We're somewhere further with tear-stained cheeks, scraped knees, and dirty hands.

But I don't always think it's bad to get dirty. You have to get messy or you'll never learn. By no means am I condoning recklessness, but sometimes you have to chase the wind.

Sometimes, it takes chasing the wind to realize that all the while, He was chasing after you.