Grumpy Lessons

My child, I have a message for you today; let me whisper it in your ear, that it may gild with glory any storm clouds which may arise, and smooth the rough places upon which you may have to tread; use them as a pillow upon which to rest your weary head…This thing is from ME. -Laura Barker Snow

I posted that at my desk and I read it at least 2x a day.

I love to learn. Now being 25 years old, education has become a past-time for me. I’ve even decided to go back to college to finish some sort of degree/diploma. 5 years ago I never would have thought it possible for learning to be fun. However as an adult I notice that I feel more human with the more knowledge I have of my surroundings. I understand myself better and those around me too. What do I mean about feeling human? As a teenager everyone thinks “No one understands me” or “I am unique and helpless”. But the more you gain understanding the more you realize there really is nothing new under the sun. The only thing that changes is your perspective through the lessons of your life. My most relevant lesson has been that whether you want to or not you’re always learning a lesson and that usually those lessons come from people you don’t like or disagree with. It’s awesome to learn from that really cool professor in college that not only is a fountain of knowledge, but seems down to earth at the same time. But it’s a whole other story when you learn something important from your irritating little brother, or the rude costumer, or ***gasp*** your parents. You only have to remember there is a lesson to be learned. If you don’t remember that you will become angry and disheartened. You will think the world is against you and that you have been forgotten. That is why I have posted that quote I started with, because I am not forgotten. I am loved and am being polished by an all-knowing God. Satan may be saying “Ha-ha, take that!” But God then says, “Thanks, I think I will.”