Archive for December, 2007
New Year’s Resolutions
Sunday, December 30th, 2007If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!New Year’s resolutions have never worked well for me. The few times I’ve declared any, those goals seemed doomed to fail by the end of February. So what’s your opinion of New Year’s resolutions? Are you a believer or […]
Lessons in Teaching
Tuesday, December 18th, 2007This summer I began giving piano lessons to a five-year-old girl. Each week after she leaves I marvel at how well she is doing.
During one of these times of reflection, I noticed how there are many things she simply has to memorize and accept that they mean what I or the book says they mean. She’s not old enough to understand and process the reason behind these things, and to explain them all, to share all my knowledge with her, would overload her with information. How similar that is to our relationship with God — except so often we, or at least I, ask why.
