I’m learning every day, all the time, and I pray that lessons from life never stop. So. That’s the first lesson I reminded myself of yesterday.
Lesson number one.
You should never stop learning. Life teaches something every day. When you stop learning, you stop growing and get stuck in the past.
I was sitting in a doctor’s office waiting room yesterday, and since it’s a foot issue, I suppose you expect to see many older folks with more mileage on their equipment.
Several were chatting about refusing to use life’s acceptable modern inventions… cell phones and social media. Both are controllable, and you don’t have to give in to their excesses… Hmm. Is that a lesson within a lesson? If they could talk about their abhorrence of these two things in a semi-public setting, I’m sure they had much more they could share if they had a bigger platform and more time.
I won’t share their utterances, but you can imagine.
Lesson number two.
You don’t have to join every conversation. Tune it out and tune into your own needs and plans.
All that noise around you is a distraction. Keep your focus.
Lesson number three.
Don’t tell all you know. After a while, you repeat yourself, and others realize you don’t know very much.
Lesson number four.
Accept help, thankfully.
An elderly lady shuffled toward the door with a walker after seeing the foot doctor. I got up to help with the door. “I’ve got muscles. I can do it myself.”
Okay. I can read into it anything I want. No, “Thank you anyway!” Or “I appreciate it, but I’m learning how to be injured and alone.”
Oh well. I went back to my seat, and the other waiters shrugged their shoulders with me. At least I tried.
Isaiah 1:16-20 NKJV
“Wash yourselves, make yourselves clean;
Put away the evil of your doings from before My eyes.
Cease to do evil, Learn to do good;
Seek justice, Rebuke the oppressor;
Defend the fatherless, Plead for the widow.
“Come now, and let us reason together,” Says the LORD,
“Though your sins are like scarlet,
They shall be as white as snow;
Though they are red like crimson,
They shall be as wool.
If you are willing and obedient,
You shall eat the good of the land;
But if you refuse and rebel,
You shall be devoured by the sword”;
For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.
