Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Learning

Today I learned.

Oh, what a miserable experience it was.

I learned that to trust God is life, to trust humans is to enlist the possibility of failure into your life.
I learned that to observe what is around me is to life. To be a part of what is around me is living.
I learned that love is something that I can own, share, delve into. Being loved is the greatest of all feelings, with the possible and sure exception of loving someone else.

I learned this because I arose this morning, and rising into that good morning is what we all must learn more about.

The writer of Ecclesiastes says this: Meaningless! Meaningless says the teacher. Utterly meaningles! Everything is meaningless."
What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun? Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises."

See, what I've learned in the past couple days is that no matter how hard I work, no matter how hard I try, no matter what I've pasted onto that resume, no matter how talented I might think I am, it all really is meaningless unless someone else thinks the same. So I have a choice. I can not try as hard or I can try as hard and not worry about the outcome. That's the hardest part. But it's what I must do, I'm afraid.

I'll continue to try to learn, continue to try to get better, continue to give effort. For I know that is what God would have me, have us do. It's not about raises or promotions, it's about doing what we do to the best of the gift God has given us.

If there were more who did that, then what a world we would have. Huh?

I learned today. It was a pleasure.

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