A Father's Counsel, a Mother's Teaching
Child, hear your father's counsel, and do not forsake your mother's teaching.
Have I dismissed my parents' old words as outdated, throwing out the living wisdom inside them?
📝Reflection
When young, a parent's words sounded like nagging. Only after making the same mistake in later years do we see the answer was already inside that nagging. Hebrew wisdom literature saw words handed from generation to generation as the most precious inheritance. Confucian filial piety, too, was not only the etiquette of obedience but the refusal to carelessly erase the footprints of those who walked ahead. Not every parent's word is right, but the words of one who has lived long carry a grain no book holds. To throw even that away is not wisdom but arrogance.
🌱Apply It Today
Recall one piece of 'nagging' from a parent or elder today, and find the single line of care hidden inside it.
This verse is read as universal humanistic wisdom, not religion — no faith is promoted, and the reflection is 100% original ONGO content.
