Sirach 6:23-31. Sirach is speaking to his son about wisdom. He says to put your feet into her fetters and your neck into her collar, "do not fret under her bonds." Keep her ways with all your might. Search and seek for her and she will become known to you. When you find her, do not let her go, she will be changed into joy for you. Her fetters will become your protection. "You will wear her like a glorious robe, and put her on like a crown of gladness."

I use the word truth a lot when I think what I really mean is wisdom. Sometimes it is impossible to know what the truth really is, but there is a sense of it, a feel for it, and for its opposite. That is what I'm really referring to, and I think that that is wisdom.

As Sirach says here, at first it is difficult to pursue wisdom. This is, in large part, due to the fact that it puts you at odds with the much of the world. When we are seeking wisdom, we are seeking God, we are seeking truth, and this world, as we know, is a world of many comforting lies and one that tries to hide the truth. Thus seeking wisdom makes us different. It makes many people uncomfortable to with us, those who are holding on to the seductions of this world or to the comfort of its lies.

So we can be very tempted to give up on wisdom and sink back into the world, but as Sirach says here, she is more than worth the work and what we have to go through to get her.

Wisdom may seem confining and limiting, in fact it is confining and limiting, but only because the truth is confining and limiting - there is only one truth, one reality. Once we accept the limitations of the truth, we are born into the freedom of it, of accepting our own and the world's limitations that were placed by the Creator Himself.

Then we wear wisdom like a robe and a crown. It becomes our glory.