Wisdom hard for clever people to see or "the way of exchange" in words.

The following are some notes I made after some reading of C.S. Lewis which led to my cross reference remembrances from other sources.  I wrote them out here.  If you are like me these thoughts will lead you to other insights as you muse on these.

The last paragraph in the book  BY C.S. LEWIS UNTIL WE HAVE A FACE  ends;
" When the Divine voice says who she is…you are also Psyche…(complete soul)
I know now why Lord, why you utter no answer you are yourself the answer.
Before your face questions die away..what other answer would suffice? Only words, words lead out to do battle against other words."
 
Note the above wisdom as the same ending as in the Book of Job:

After God shows up Job responds: "…now I know who you are, and now I know who I am.  I am a man with empty headed words. I was the one who said foolish things like, I'll ask the questions and you give me the answers.
 Then comes chapter 42 verse 4 Job says:  " I had known you with the hearing of the ear, now I see you with mine own eye, and I fall down in dust and ashes."

Note a similar experience of knowing in a biography about Thomas Aquinas:
"…Thomas Aquinas just before his death as he was in chapel prone on floor after he just  finished his Theologica,  a brother Reginald watching swore a voice came form the crucifix, saying my son Thomas you have written well of me what would you have of me?  Thomas answers  "Only yourself Lord."   

This is the same idea again by C.S. Lewis his book teaches us to be similarly wise: "Only way to be relevant to your times is to be irrelevant to it." 

Further, C.S. Lewis, in the Great Divorce suggests:
  "…" I was always in heaven but didn't know it." and;
   "If we say our neighbor as in heaven we either would see them as a goddess or we would be turned away screaming that that was the most terrible nightmare we ever had."

Thomas Traherne said somewhere:
  "The world is a palace of infinite beauty but we don't see it."

St. Francis of Assisi,
 "If God grants you the beatific vision and someone poor knocks on your door answer it there is the Holy One."  paraphrased

Sisters of St. Mary's of Boston…they help people all the time…they see Jesus with all those they help. 

Wisdom hard for clever people to see.