St. Thomas Moore taught that one grows in wisdom by meditating on one or more of the four last things: Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell. Whether this meditation is constant or sporadically intentional isn't nearly as important as simply doing it. Of these four which do you find more drawn to for the purposes of your own spiritual considerations?
Wisdom is knowing what things are for; knowing their final cause or ultimate purpose. Wisdom allows one to see the true value of something and does not add nor subtract from that precise value. It sees reality and the things contained in reality as God does. God is Wisdom and our destiny - should we choose to accept it - is to be caught up in His Divine Wisdom forever catching His eternal perspective.
What will allow you to focus on the true value of things? Would the fact of your impending, inescapable death do that? How about the intervention of judgment over your life after you die; will imagining that experience cause you to change your ways? What about the excitement of Heaven? The horrors of final and irrevocable loss in Hell? What will shock you into clairvoyant attention to what matters most and what doesn't matter after all?
Don't close your eyes to things yet unseen. Wisdom goes beyond the immediate and incorporates into the present that which is inevitable: The Four Last Things. We all will die, be judged, and end up in Heaven or Hell. Lent is a good time to seek clarity of sight. We need the lense of God's Wisdom to lift us above our petty pursuits in order that we might "press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called [us] heavenward in Christ Jesus." (Phillipians 3:14)
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