Welcome to today's encouragement from our daily bread.

I'm Wyn Cawyer, and I wrote today's piece titled Reckless and Careless.

Lindisfarne, also known as Holy Island, is a tidal island in England connected to the mainland by a narrow road.

Twice a day, the sea covers the causeway.

Signs alert visitors to the dangers of crossing during high tide.

Yet tourists regularly disregard the warnings and often end up sitting atop submerged cars or swimming

to raised safety huts where they can be rescued.

The tide is predictable, as sure as the rising sun, and warnings are everywhere.

You can't possibly miss them.

Yet as one writer described, Linda's Farn is where the reckless try to outrace the tide.

Proverbs tells us that it's foolish to be reckless and careless.

A reckless person has little regard for wisdom or wise counsel and doesn't practice attentiveness or diligent care

for others. Wisdom, however, slows us down to listen and ponder so that we're not carried

away by rash emotions or half-baked ideas.

Wisdom teaches us to ask good questions and consider the implications of our actions.

While reckless people charge forward with little regard for relationships or consequences

are often truth, prudent people give thought to their steps. While we'll sometimes need to act decisively or swiftly, we can resist recklessness.

As we receive and practice God's wisdom, he'll give us the guidance we need, when we need it.

Today's our Daily Bread devotional scripture reading is from Proverbs 14,

verses 7 to 16.

Stay away from a fool, for you will not find knowledge on their lips.

The wisdom of the prudent is to give thought to their ways, but the folly of fools is deception.

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