DO ANY OF YOU POSSESS SUPERNATURAL WISDOM?

DO ANY OF YOU POSSESS SUPERNATURAL WISDOM?

Recently, President Donald Trump welcomed American pastor Andrew Brunson to the Oval Office to celebrate his release from nearly two years of confinement in Turkey. While in the Oval Office, the pastor prayed for the president to be granted "supernatural wisdom" to carry out his plans. 

My first reaction, as it often is, wondered just what “supernatural wisdom” was. After some study (googling) I learned that it is a religiously significant term that implies the endowing of wisdom by a greater Power. I can accept the explanation, but my first reaction after first reading the term was that it was like ordering a GIANT king-size Slurpee instead of the regular 40 ounce one. It was a wisdom greater than ordinary plebeian wisdom.

Either way, praying that Trump be granted “wisdom” of any variety or magnitude was a welcome occurrence. Wisdom, is certainly a gift that Trump sorely needs.

For example, Trump has repeatedly suggested, that in light of the number of shootings in American schools that the solution was fairly obvious to him. Teachers should bear arms while in school. He reasoned that teachers with weapons could respond to attackers by shooting back thus reducing the number of student casualties. Most non-NRA card carriers believe, as I do, that the suggestion of arming teachers is ridiculous. 

More recently, over a dozen people were killed or injured when a gunman attacked a Jewish Synagogue in Pittsburg. Donald Trump responded to the synagogue shooting by calling for more armed guards in houses of worship and other public places. Again the disconnect between armed police guarding a place of worship, not a bank or military site, did not seem to trouble the president or his distorted kind of thinking.

Whether the prayer to bestow “supernatural wisdom” on Mr. Trump will come to fruition will remain to be seen. I know that I would be overjoyed if he was endowed with just plain old fashion, run-of-the-mill “wisdom”. In fact, if all else fails, I would be satisfied with him being blessed with a small dose of common sense! Is that too much to ask?

If Divine intervention is not forthcoming, perhaps we could practice a simpler form of intervention. I propose that Trump be sent the poem “All I Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten” by Robert Fulghum. It’s first few lessons include,:

“Share everything.

Play fair.

Don’t hit people.

Put things back where you found them.

Clean up your own mess.

Don’t take things that aren’t yours.

Say you’re sorry when you hurt somebody.”

All that would be left is to find someone who could read the poem to him and explain any of the parts he does not understand.