Well Taught
Today has been an amazing day. I have been well instructed, taught, led, and/or inspired. It has given me great reason to ponder. I am grateful for those who have taught, led, and/or inspired. Now, I need to figure out what to do with it.
I guess that is what it all comes down to, what we do with it.
It does not matter whether you are at school, church, home, work, or play. When you are taught something, it is up to you do decide what you are going to do with it. I guess I have said that three times now. Where am I coming from? Life's experiences.
Part of my work responsibilities is to make sure people are adhering to the policies, procedures, and expectations the company has of them. I don't know how many times I have heard in the past several weeks, "Wow, when did that start? I never knew it was required." or "I think I learned something new today. I never knew we could do that. It will make my job much easier."
This morning, we were discussing the challenges of different organizations. We were trying to understand why the challenges taking place, how we could help them progress in a fashion that was pleasing to all involved, and dissect what we were seeing and hearing from different people within these organization. Over and over again I heard, "They have not been trained.", "No one has ever shown me how", "I don't understand what I am supposed to be doing." or "I feel like a fish out of water. No one has shown me how to breath on land."
How many times have we heard in our home, "I can't, I don't know how!", "I don't know what to change, because I don't understand what I am doing wrong.", or "It will never happen, because I am incapable of learning how to do that."
Do any of these scenarios sound familiar? For some reason they have been standing out in my head a great deal as of late. I was reminded of them again this evening as I read Mosiah 18:7. In this verse, they were taught and then reminded, via preaching, of those things they had been taught. What made this group of people different was what they did with it once they had been taught.
I am sure that there were many who sat in the same meetings I sat in today, but did not get the same instruction. Some may have received different instruction. Some were there, but they were not willing to learn, so they received no instruction. Other were there, wanting to receive, but what was being taught was not making sense to them. They left needing more instruction.
What happens after the meeting will tell it all. Will they apply it? Will they seek more instruction and understanding? Or will they continue floundering with no understanding?
Where are you? I know I am wondering where I am. I am wondering how I can figure out how to apply what I have learned today.
What about what you have learned this week? Are you applying it?
Now that I have given you something to think about, let me add one more. All of these things I have mentioned depend upon you. No one can make you. You cannot make anyone else. We, as individual, must take what we learn and do something with it. What we do, may, and more than likely, will be different from what other do with it. That does not matter. What matters is that we are doing our best with what we have been given. We cannot get caught up in what others are doing, what others think we should be doing, or what we think others think we should be doing. We just do what we, as individual children of God, know what we should do, our BEST!
I have rambled enough. Good night.
I guess that is what it all comes down to, what we do with it.
It does not matter whether you are at school, church, home, work, or play. When you are taught something, it is up to you do decide what you are going to do with it. I guess I have said that three times now. Where am I coming from? Life's experiences.
Part of my work responsibilities is to make sure people are adhering to the policies, procedures, and expectations the company has of them. I don't know how many times I have heard in the past several weeks, "Wow, when did that start? I never knew it was required." or "I think I learned something new today. I never knew we could do that. It will make my job much easier."
This morning, we were discussing the challenges of different organizations. We were trying to understand why the challenges taking place, how we could help them progress in a fashion that was pleasing to all involved, and dissect what we were seeing and hearing from different people within these organization. Over and over again I heard, "They have not been trained.", "No one has ever shown me how", "I don't understand what I am supposed to be doing." or "I feel like a fish out of water. No one has shown me how to breath on land."
How many times have we heard in our home, "I can't, I don't know how!", "I don't know what to change, because I don't understand what I am doing wrong.", or "It will never happen, because I am incapable of learning how to do that."
Do any of these scenarios sound familiar? For some reason they have been standing out in my head a great deal as of late. I was reminded of them again this evening as I read Mosiah 18:7. In this verse, they were taught and then reminded, via preaching, of those things they had been taught. What made this group of people different was what they did with it once they had been taught.
I am sure that there were many who sat in the same meetings I sat in today, but did not get the same instruction. Some may have received different instruction. Some were there, but they were not willing to learn, so they received no instruction. Other were there, wanting to receive, but what was being taught was not making sense to them. They left needing more instruction.
What happens after the meeting will tell it all. Will they apply it? Will they seek more instruction and understanding? Or will they continue floundering with no understanding?
Where are you? I know I am wondering where I am. I am wondering how I can figure out how to apply what I have learned today.
What about what you have learned this week? Are you applying it?
Now that I have given you something to think about, let me add one more. All of these things I have mentioned depend upon you. No one can make you. You cannot make anyone else. We, as individual, must take what we learn and do something with it. What we do, may, and more than likely, will be different from what other do with it. That does not matter. What matters is that we are doing our best with what we have been given. We cannot get caught up in what others are doing, what others think we should be doing, or what we think others think we should be doing. We just do what we, as individual children of God, know what we should do, our BEST!
I have rambled enough. Good night.
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