I had a college professor who assigned the book of Proverbs to his Psychology 101 class, instructing us to circle in our Bibles every appearance of the word way or path. The point, he said, is that wisdom isn’t about sticking to a set of rules or hitting some imaginary bull’s-eye representing “God’s will.” Wisdom is a way of life, a journey of humility and faithfulness we take together, one step at a time. To an anxious student who spent a lot of time worrying that her major or her homecoming date or her student senate bid were outside of God’s will, this lesson proved an enormous comfort.
