“Life Continues To Teach”
Hey my friends, even if you are just reading and we have never met you are being a friend. I appreciate each of you that read this. Especially when it has gotten so inconsistent! I really do have to acknowledge the surgery that I had the last day of March. I guess when they cut out a chunk of your brain it changes some things. It has certainly changed some of the ways my brain works. At this point I am grateful to be alive and in some ways pretty healthy.
I go in every two months for, blood work, brain scan, and meeting with Dr’s. A week from today is my next appointment and those are very helpful. I am hoping next week will be good news, which encourages me to more time to live, enjoy life, my family and friends.
One quick thought today and hopefully I will be back sooner. This process has been good for me in many ways!!!
No matter how old you are, here is my question. “How often do you learn something that is different than what you originally believed or understood?”
This is an important question for me, personally and working with people. My work in ministry for 30 years I began to see, just like my counseling work. Many people believed they were correct on about any topic or view of life things and were opposed to the idea the they might be, “incorrect or off-base.” Honestly one of the biggest reasons for this was simply, men and women who are, “close minded.”
I personally believe that is, problematic. There are many things we believe and often believe strongly! That’s not a bad thing. What is a problem, is when we close our minds and miss some big opportunities to better understand or see and learn somethings differently.
I have believed, that I was going to continue to learn things and sometimes see something in a very different way, until the day I die.
This has been helpful for me over the years. I want to acknowledge that there are many things that, I believe strongly. Part of what this means to me is, I can listen to someone respectfully. Doing that in no way means I agree, simply that I listen, try to understand where they are coming from. It’s not that common that I agree and change my belief about something. But it often helps me understand better, where they are coming from and why.
Listening to people has been one of my great joys of life. The key for me is “listening to understand.”
I hope some of that makes sense. I have so valued the way so many of you have responded to what I have written. It’s odd I can’t figure out how to respond to people who respond online with what I write. I don’t spend much time at all on FB. I need to have one of my friends help me figure out how to respond to people who write something to me after these are posted.
Have a beautiful day and remember, “You Loved and of Great Value.”
Peace,