When you learn a lesson, and sometimes it’s just for you, there are often ears that need to hear what you learned. If it’s valuable enough, you help the listener. Make it meaningful, and they will share for generations to come.
Lessons learned and shared helps more generations than you can shake a stick at!
I am a proponent of being one that will never stop learning. Every single day there is something new to learn or to share with someone who is needing insight I gained years ago. Lessons have been learned for generations, so we often look for examples in older literature. If it was taught “back then,” it must still be valuable today—Solomon, Socrates, Plato, etc.
Tweeted this morning, 1/4/2022:
It’s icy this morning. Reminiscent of my first major ice experience in Anchorage, 1980. Then, easily 2 inches. Now, 1/4 inch. Fall potential? Equal! Lesson: little is just as powerful as a lot. Hmmm…Faith, Faith, Faith…don’t take a lot, use what you got! #TwentyTwentyTwo
This thought took me down rabbit trails! Chapters and books of memories. But herein lies Wisdom: You will not learn the lesson if I have to tell you my story. A summed-up thought is really all you need to apply the wisdom to your own situation.
Your Experience and Voice Is A Great Teacher
You can be just as valuable a voice as some of these names.
When you learn a lesson, craft the words carefully for a listening ear. Make it rhyme, flow, or sing it in a song. Words are easily wasted by those who want to hear themselves. I learn the most about those who have an economy of words filled with deep vaults to think through. I do not need the background of their words. It’s apparent they learned lessons, so give me the very condensed version of your summation. That’s what I want to be like!!
In a flash, my mind goes to T.F. Tenny. A man who could give you a phrase full of experience and thought! Here’s a picture from his homegoing service that was shared on Twitter.
Think about Solomon. He writes beautiful words that are summations of his experiences. One-liners. Just a few words. Teach the lessons you learn. In the ending of one book, he sums it up with these words:
And moreover, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge;
yes, he pondered and sought out and set in order many proverbs.
The Preacher sought to find acceptable words;
and what was written was upright—words of truth.
The words of the wise are like goads,
and the words of scholars are like well-driven nails,
given by one Shepherd.
And further, my son, be admonished by these.
Of making many books there is no end,
and much study is wearisome to the flesh.
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter:
Fear God and keep His commandments,
For this is man’s all.
For God will bring every work into judgment,
Including every secret thing,
Whether good or evil.
Ecclesiastes 12:9-14 NKJV