Where did it go?

Where did my desire to learn go? I heard a statistic one time that talked about how adults stop learning at about my age…27 ;-) actually…the stat was something like 42. An ancient age. I am finding that I am slipping into that stat. I am getting “set in my ways”. I definitely do not want that. I guess the biggest battles of this is two-fold.

 

1.       I think that all I need to know I know and the rest is irrelevant..

2.       You end up thinking that everyone else is wrong all the time!

 

I know many people like this and I always wondered why it was so easy for me to spot them. Typically, the thing that you identify and that which repulses you the most is a blind spot that is unknowingly owned by the one that is repulsed. For so many years I hated that dumb childish saying that goes something like, “when you point at someone else, there are 3 fingers pointing back at you!” na – na – na – na –na

 

But, really, doesn’t even scripture say the same thing? Something about a spec and a plank…I think you know the story.

 

How do I regain that hunger? How do I remove that humility costume and make it permanent? It’s kind of difficult to explain but I think it’s a common occurrence with many different things…people often 1^st desire wholeheartedly to have something like humility, then they get pretty good at doing it, then they become proud of how humble they are, then it becomes an inner thing that says – “yeah, you don’t know me…I am the humblest guy around, just ask anybody.” Sheesh, that’s DE-SCUSTIN.

 

There have been a lot of things going on in life right now that has helped me to identify this shortcoming – one was thinking that my life it getting busy and difficult, but “handlin it”. But, the other day I emailed an old friend back home and found out what struggling really was. Man, I am sad for him. A vast and sudden realization that my world had become centered around me.

 

And the problem is this
We were bought with a kiss
But the cheek still turned
Even when it wasn't hit

And I don't know
What to do with a love like that
And I don't know
How to be a love like that

When all the love in the world
Is right here among us
And hatred too
And so we must choose
What our hands will do

Where there is pain
Let there be grace
Where there is suffering
Bring serenity
For those afraid
Help them be brave
Where there is misery
Bring expectancy
And surely we can change
Surely we can change
Something

And the problem it seems
Is with you and me
Not the Love who came
To repair everything

Where there is pain
Let us bring grace
Where there is suffering
Bring serenity
For those afraid
Let us be brave
Where there is misery
Let us bring them relief
And surely we can change
Surely we can change
Oh surely we can change
Something

Oh, the world's about to change
The whole world's about to change