April 2016 – ALookintoT

your calling

Have you ever considered you path in life? Is it rocky or smooth sailing? I would be worried about you if you say all smooth sailing. Life can be good but it can be difficult also. What keeps you strong and on the right path? A person without a sense of direction is like a ship without a rudder. You just sail away into waters unknown subject to the natural forces of life. How were you called? Okay, I know I will loose many of my readers when I ask such questions. At that risk, I ask anyway. A person named Saul persecuted the early people who belonged to the Way until he was blinded on a road. He was a cruel servant of the State who became a server of the Way. How did that happen? There is a better way and that is the Way. Read Acts 9:1-20 to find out a little more about Saul who became Paul and found his calling. Perhaps you may do the same if not already working according to His will. Listen a little more to below also if you have time.

First, Last, Doubters, Believers

Dreamers have a vision that far exceeds what the human eyes can see. Dreamers succeed in life when they convert those dreams into a plan. They work the plan anticipating failure but refusing to accept failure as the end but a means to achieve success. This is not too far off a person with faith. The first born from the dead goes back much further in our history to the very creation. (Alpha) He is with us now to overcome our doubting ways until we believe and will be with us at the end. (Omega) The story of Thomas as documented in John 20:19-31 is a story about us humans who are by nature very skeptical. We see only with our eyes not our faith. Thomas had doubts because he could not see with his own eyes. “Happy are those who don’t see and yet believe.”

Read for yourself and listen to the below message.

Who got it?

It is interesting to note the in both gospels in John 20:1-18 or Luke 24:1-12, it is the women who seem to get it. In John, it is John and Peter running to see the empty grave but slipping back to their hiding places to wonder what happened where Mary Magdalene encountered the risen Christ. In Luke, it was Mary Magdalene, Joanna, Mary mother and other women who discovered the empty tomb then Peter ran down to confirm only to return wondering what happened. I do not get it! A woman in a man’s world got it. Read for yourself and listen to the below brief message.

Happy Easter,

Art of Learning

Art is “the expression or application of human creative skill and imagination,” Learning is the “acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study or by being taught.” The Art of Learning is the expression or application of human creative skills by acquisition of knowledge through experience, study or by being taught. Say what!

Unless you are born with a natural intellect, knowledge is acquired. How does a person learn the necessary skills to achieve success? One of three possibilities includes experience, study or being taught.

If we rely on pure experience to achieve knowledge, that is called the school of hard knocks!

If we rely totally on our ability to self study, most of us are not very good at managing our time. Are we capable of the discipline to self study? Can we afford to study totally on our own without other student interactions or teacher help?

If we are relying on someone to teach us without follow up study, then we risk not retaining the knowledge being taught.

The solution to the art of learning is application of all three ways to acquire knowledge.

In this modern technological world we should utilize computer applications as much as possible to “fast track” learning. I think we should combine “online” self study with class and lab experiences to prepare future movers and shakers. This is according to T. What say you?