Do You Know It All?

I am back in school.    There are probably some folks that believe I have enough “book learning”.  I have a high school degree, bachelors degree, and two master’s degree.     I believe it was baseball player Yogi Berra who said  “It ain’t bragging if you did it.”  Well,  I have a few degrees.     Yet, here I am on the verge of medicare back in school again.   A few days ago, I started taking an online class on writing.    Last Fall,  I took a class in creating Word Press web sites.   Though I do not remember all the particulars of the class,  I did enjoy the experience and learned a lot. 

Now, let me stop and clarify that I am not taking a class in handwriting.   Any of you that have ever suffered the trauma of trying to read my handwriting will testify that I probably could use a lot of classes on handwriting.  If you can read my handwriting, you might also be able to read an ancient form of hieroglyphics.   

Yes,  I am taking a class in writing.   Those of you that are regular readers of this blog might lament that you wish that I had taken a class in writing many years ago.  I am taking this class not because I believe I write so badly, but because I believe I can write better.    Back in the 1980’s and 1990’s,  I read a number of books from an author named Leo Buscaglia.   One of his books was titled Papa, My Father.   As the title implies,  it was a memoir about his father.  Buscaglia tells in the book about the fact that every evening at the dinner table that his father would ask each of his children “What did you learn today?”   As Leo and his siblings would go through the events of the day,  they would search to make sure there was something they could offer as a new learning to their father at the dinner table.  As that story implies, there is so much to know and learn.   There is much to learn in this world, and there certainly is much to learn about the love we know in Christ Jesus.      I like the way that Ephesians 3 puts it:

And I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, ¹⁸ may have power, together with all the Lord’s holy people, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, ¹⁹ and to know this love that surpasses knowledge—that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of God.

I don’t know about you, but my name is certainly not “Mr.  Know It All”.     I will leave it up to the readers of this blog in the weeks ahead to decide if I learned anything in this writing class.   Have a joy-filled week.- Pastor Randy Wall

Prayer:    O God,  there is so much to learn in this world and life.   Give me an open heart and mind to others and especially to you;  through Christ our Lord.  Amen.