A little
more than five years ago (October 3, 2010), I started this blog. In the last
month I have lost the desire to continue it as it was going. At one point I had
considered this as an outlet for personal thoughts on a variety of subjects as
they surfaced in my life. Somehow that morphed into a stream of “how to”
additions that left me empty and feeling like I was saying nothing. With so
many experts already in the field where I was writing, I decided I was wasting
my time and that of any readers.
After a
hiatus of more than a month, it is time for me to start writing again. This
time it will be less regimented as to publishing date. Gone is the constraint
of writing every Wednesday. It will be less didactical and simply more
self-revelatory. The one thing I will continue is to show how my thoughts and
development have their roots in the words of the Holy Bible, the word of God.
King Solomon
is described as writing thousands of proverbs springing out of his wisdom. He
found insight as he watched people and studied nature. Life itself was his
teacher. This increase in wisdom came about because he opened his eyes and ears
to the world and his spirit to the guidance of the Holy Spirit of God.
To get the
most from this brief existence we call life in this world, we must all do the
same. It begins when you are born, and it doesn’t end until you die. We learn
from what we take in through our five physical senses and just as much from
what we allow to touch our spiritual beings. If we cannot put that in a test
tube or under a microscope, that doesn’t mean we are not learning just as much.
Perhaps in one sense we are learning the more important lessons of life when we
are learning through our hearts rather than through our minds.
Jesus said:
Mat 11:28-30 "Come to me, all of you who are tired from carrying
heavy loads, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke and put it on you, and
learn from me, because I am gentle and humble in spirit; and you will find
rest. For the yoke I will give you is easy, and the load I will put on you is
light."
This journey
I began at conception more than six decades ago has been filled with lessons.
Many I have missed and will never know what I could have been had I been more
sensitive to their presence. Today I am what I am because of the lessons I
learned or failed to learn. I am probably richer because of both, not
necessarily better, just richer.
Through all
that time my greatest teacher has been my Lord Jesus Christ. Sometimes he spoke
to me through his written word, the Bible. Often he spoke through those
Christian saints who have already lived out their years in this mortal life. At
times he has led me to see his lessons in the natural world when I was sensitive
enough to let those experiences be interpreted through the nature of God.
In the
future this blog will take a different form. For any who would take the time to
read it, you will see the lessons I have learned and am learning under the
tutelage of the Master Teacher. May God bless us both.
