From Hopscotch to Holiness

20 From Hopscotch To HolinessHopscotch Rules:Instructions: Draw a hopscotch pattern on the ground or usemasking tape on a floor and number each square in order. Eachplayer has a marker such as a stone, shell, etc. There are avariety of grids to choose from.How to play hopscotch: Stand at the beginning and toss yourmarker in the first square. Hop over square 1 (you must skip anysquare that has a marker in it) to square 2.Hop to the end, jump and turn around 180° without leaving thegrid, and hop back.Pause in square 2 to pick up the marker, and hop out.Toss the marker in square 2, hop through the same way, thensquare 3 and so on.WISDOM: good sense; the ability to make sensible decisions andjudgments based on personal knowledge and experience.Hopscotch seemed like such an easy children’s game until I began toresearch all the rules. Maybe that is the way you first looked at theconcept of wisdom. When beginning the game of hopscotch, you mustfirst draw the pattern on the ground. So that’s where we’ll start our studyof wisdom, drawing a basic pattern from the scriptures. Wisdom is notcomplicated as much as it is many-faceted.Wisdom is good sense. Are we born with good sense? I think not. I thinkour ability to make sensible decisions and judgments is shaped by our