Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the Day of Grace podcast. This is Crystal and I'm joined by my friend

and co-host Emma. Hey, Emma. Hey, Crystal. Okay, today's going to be a little bit different,

and I'm looking forward to this. You know, a lot of our episodes are around different topics.

We are diving deep into doctrine and scripture, and we're going to talk through a lot of those

things in a different way because we're going to be talking about lot of those things in a different way because

we're talking about what books we are reading right now. And we want to even dive into the topic

of wisdom and how that plays into the types of books that we are reading and the books that we

want to seek out. So maybe you're listening and you're like, yes, I'm all in. I'm a big reader.

Maybe you're listening going like, oh, like reading is either hard for me and I don't really enjoy it.

Hey, listen, we want to invite you in this conversation.

I naturally have, I don't want to say I'm naturally, like, opposed to reading.

I have to really work at the discipline of incorporating reading into my day-to-day rhythms.

Like once I do it, I love it. But it's like hard sometimes to start. And so don't listen to us as

people that are like, oh, well, of course, by nature of your job. Like, that is Lind itself. Like,

if you're a writer and editor, you're probably also a reader. But what you'd like stick around.

Like regardless if you'd consider yourself a big reader or not, because hopefully we'll talk about a lot of things that apply

regardless of kind of like where you would categorize yourself. So grab some coffee and like get a cozy

spot. Settle in. I'm excited to talk through more of this. And we're not going to start off

with favorite things. Also a little bit different because we're going to talk about them at the end with what books we're reading because those are our favorite things right now. So let's jump into this. We're going to talk about what it means to actively pursue wisdom as we're reading, whether it's scripture or whether it's something outside of scripture. What is wisdom and why is it important? We see wisdom all throughout

scripture. One verse, Proverbs 1 7 says, the fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge or

wisdom. In fools, despise wisdom and discipline. And so we see this theme throughout scripture

of wisdom, you know, pursuing knowledge, but ultimately like like, a fear of the Lord. And so anytime we're

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