Digesting
Yesterday afternoon, I received a small package at work. I was expecting some of it, but not all. In the package, there was small book about using objects to get the point across. It came at perfect timing. I had been thinking about a lesson for family home evening, but did not know how to get the point across. This little book was very beneficial.
Anyway, as I glanced through, I found a wonderful example to use for the lesson. It required that I stop at the store on the way home and purchase some items. I picked up some apples, bananas, oranges, and a couple candy bars. The minute I walked in to the house; everyone was full of questions. What is that, why do you have it, who is it for, why are you doing that with it, what are you doing, are you ok...etc.? As I warded off the questions I began to doubt whether it was going to be an object lesson or a distraction to the lesson. I moved forward.
I cut some lengths of yarn and began hooking all the items together. During the lesson, I gave each person these strung items to hang around their necks, ears, heads, or what not. That part was kind of distracting. The idea of un-opened candy was distracting as well. But I think we made it through.
We talked about how just carrying those things around with us did nothing for us. Well, other than to draw bizarre bouts of staring and possibly a bombardment of questions similar to the ones I received when I walked in the door. We all knew what was in the skins of the fruits. We could read the labels of the candies and know what was inside the, but until we opened them, tasted them, savoured them, and began to digest them, they really did not do us any good.
We then talked about carrying book bags full of books, lockers full of paper, pens behind our ears, scriptures in their cases, etc... They really did not do us much good until we opened them. Going a bit further, we could read them like we read the labels of the candies, but until we internalized them and made them part of our lives, they were just things.
We learned to make it part of us. The questions has risen in my mind about certain subjects. One could say that when they question the why's of using a certain formula or following an outlined method of calculation they are just trying to internalize the subject. My question in response to that is, do you question why an apple tastes the way it does? or why bananas are yellow? or do you just accept the fact that they are and apply them to your life? Some things we just won't know, we have to accept and move forward with it. Others, we can question, internalize, and then digest more completely. Just don't let it get caught in your throat because you are hung up on the taste. Swallow and begin the process of digest. Apply the principle to all areas of your life. Grow.
Anyway, as I glanced through, I found a wonderful example to use for the lesson. It required that I stop at the store on the way home and purchase some items. I picked up some apples, bananas, oranges, and a couple candy bars. The minute I walked in to the house; everyone was full of questions. What is that, why do you have it, who is it for, why are you doing that with it, what are you doing, are you ok...etc.? As I warded off the questions I began to doubt whether it was going to be an object lesson or a distraction to the lesson. I moved forward.
I cut some lengths of yarn and began hooking all the items together. During the lesson, I gave each person these strung items to hang around their necks, ears, heads, or what not. That part was kind of distracting. The idea of un-opened candy was distracting as well. But I think we made it through.
We talked about how just carrying those things around with us did nothing for us. Well, other than to draw bizarre bouts of staring and possibly a bombardment of questions similar to the ones I received when I walked in the door. We all knew what was in the skins of the fruits. We could read the labels of the candies and know what was inside the, but until we opened them, tasted them, savoured them, and began to digest them, they really did not do us any good.
We then talked about carrying book bags full of books, lockers full of paper, pens behind our ears, scriptures in their cases, etc... They really did not do us much good until we opened them. Going a bit further, we could read them like we read the labels of the candies, but until we internalized them and made them part of our lives, they were just things.
We learned to make it part of us. The questions has risen in my mind about certain subjects. One could say that when they question the why's of using a certain formula or following an outlined method of calculation they are just trying to internalize the subject. My question in response to that is, do you question why an apple tastes the way it does? or why bananas are yellow? or do you just accept the fact that they are and apply them to your life? Some things we just won't know, we have to accept and move forward with it. Others, we can question, internalize, and then digest more completely. Just don't let it get caught in your throat because you are hung up on the taste. Swallow and begin the process of digest. Apply the principle to all areas of your life. Grow.
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