While we celebrate those who built the Anglican Church here, we also celebrate those who have contributed in profound ways to its evolution. Those first builders, and those that have followed, and will follow still, sought to exercise wisdom and came to learn that wisdom is not just the sum of knowledge plus experience, it is a relationship with Jesus, in whom we find wisdom personified.The history of the Anglican church in New Zealand, our own family histories, have both glory and grief, joy and sorrow and, through today’s lectionary readings, we are invited to infuse, even reframe, our reading of those histories in light of this message of Christ.