Christin Taylor lives in a college dorm (in an apartment) in Bellingham, Washington with her two children and husband Dwayne. It is there that she writes prolific essays and teaches online writing workshops as well as mentors many students who seek out her wisdom. She has currently just solidified her first book contract for Shipwrecked in Los Angeles, her creative memoir filled with insightful direction and beautiful words. She is a great teacher (take her workshop!) and wonderful human being. Christin is our last writer for this season’s FINDING HOPE prompt and she closes us out of this season with a lovely take on Proverbs 3.
What I’m about to tell you
Will lengthen the line of your days
Will harvest a crop of hope:
“In all your ways”
in every road where you put foot to path
in every street where you pass lights and lives
admit that there is one bigger than you, truer than you,
more real than the very breath you are now taking
“and He will make your ways”
straighter than the truth that has pierced your heart.
He will walk the trail you are now treading
And wear in every curve of confusion, every angle of apprehension.
“Don’t be wise in your own eyes”
be wise in the eyes of one who peers into your soul,
who sees what is not, and what cannot
be fathomed by those such as us,
dust as we are,
fading from one temporary moment to the next.
“Blessed is the man who finds wisdom”
it will be like he found a small child by the road
sat with her and heard the thoughts of God
held in the mind of one so innocent.
Those thoughts are deeper than Time
Simpler than a single note.
Beautiful are the traits of wisdom
“Nothing you desire can compare with her”
because nothing you desire brings peace
nothing you desire brings life
nothing you desire brings honor
But wisdom has laid these out like a laurel wreath
Ready for us to take with both hands.
That’s how God laid the foundations, placed the heavens, split the depths
That’s how he formed each one of us -
With sound judgment and good sense.
Cherish wisdom and know this:
The One, whose beginning and end meet on the other side of existence,
“He will be your confidence”
Though you fall, stumble, blunder, trip
He will keep you from breaking beyond repair.
