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Bible Workbench: Proper 15, August 16, 2009

Text: Proverbs 9:1-6

Wisdom has built her house,
She has hewn her seven pillars.

When I was young, I remember a treasured book in my father’s library. It was Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence. Lawrence had begun writing a book about seven major cities of the Near East when World War II broke out. The book became his autobiography, and the background for the film Lawrence of Arabia. Continue reading