Learning life's lessons...then doing life's lessons...ah, there it is, the sum and substance of life itself.
Learning is the easy part, but we don't find that out until we've learned, which leaves doing as the hard part, but that's only if we go at it solo-powered.
Learning is the easy part, but we don't find that out until we've learned, which leaves doing as the hard part, but that's only if we go at it solo-powered.
My life's lessons are few, and looking back I feel like I knew them the minute I first heard them. Basically, they are: take nothing personally; try not to be as nasty as I want to be; pray "Thank You" to everything...and mean it.
It is the offshoots of life that keep us tethered, according to me, and by that I mean tethered to our desire for still more spiritual growth. Every hesitation, stumble and/or fall is our opportunity to seek still more spiritual growth.
A basic offshoot of mine in learning bloomed when I became willing to show my ignorance...which is just asking for help, for another's viewpoint. The fear that then they'll know I don't know, and I'll look the fool I got to kiss on the lips and know it for just another sliver of gold in my learning process.
And that leads to another offshoot, i.e., learning to view down as up...which is the short form of the lesson that God's view is the mirror image of our view. I accepted that as fact when I realized the worst thing that could ever happen to me had turned out to be my precious pearl beyond price, a gift of grace and God...and I use that as my yardstick for the less-than-wonderful events of life today.
Know and show that God's will is always love...there, that's the root of life's lessons.
Thank you.
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