Reflections

Being Schooled

• By Abel
• January 19, 2015
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Life is a classroom and I seem to be a perpetual student in it. There always seems to be one more lesson I need to learn no matter how evolved I feel. It’s not like being enrolled in school however, where each class I enter has a specific topic and I have some inkling of what knowledge will be shared with me. I might even have some preconceived ideas about whether the subject will be hard or easy, dry or interesting, of value or useless.

Each day I wake up and take note that God saw fit for me to continue my studies. There must be something still of worth that needs to be taught and that I need to catch. And, I wonder exactly what that is. Will the day hold lots of frustrations dealing with difficult people testing my patience? Will I be bored with my work yet unmotivated to do things personally that will move me ahead? Or will the day share with me the beauty of nature and its animal spirits in an attempt to align me with my true self?

I know not which each day will hold and have limited control of what does present itself for me to traverse and overcome or become aware of and relish. So I continue doing my best to rise calmly to the challenges set in front of me, to be conscious of my emotions and to keep them positive, and to be aware of my surroundings so as to stimulate movement toward that which God wishes me to create and to share. Whether that be a comment spoken in a kind way to a coworker that changes her outlook or a blog post that fills a little more of my empty soul, healing me bit by bit, I continue.

This is what I can control, this is what I can do as my story and my lessons unfold piece by piece each day. I can learn to not get caught up in what I would call my failures and to be thankful. I must learn that this life and my interactions are not only lessons I need to learn but that there is a flipside holding lessons for those who come in contact with me. The teacher is the student and the student is the teacher. Symbiotic relationships tying us together in these, our lives.

Photo Credit: John Murden