Two weeks ago I told my five year old son, Titus, that he could have anything he wanted for dinner.  He had been especially good that whole week so it was his turn to pick his favorite dinner.  I sat on the couch with him and asked, “Titus, what do you want for dinner?”  He paused a short while and responded, “you mean I can have anything I want?”  “Yep,” I replied, “it’s all about you.”

If you could have anything, what would you want?  More of something?  Less?  My son looked at me a little while longer, then said simply: “cookies.”  See, what we want is often not what we need… and who better to know what we need than the one who created us?

This weekend we will begin our summer’s journey through the book of Proverbs.  We will be learning from a man who asked God for the one simple thing: wisdom.

In the end, I didn’t give Titus cookies for dinner, but we did compromise on Burger King.