Learning Curves-Embrace Them!

Life is full of learning curves, just when we believe that we know it..something comes up to shake up what we believe we know. This is a recursive thing that happens in life, what we know gets shaped into new things everyday.The task however is to stay in a state of learning..allowing each day to carry us into the next--- knowing that things can change and morph into something new each day.

The more I learn the more I believe that when we stop taking things that we experience personally..then and only then can we allow in the light of learning and growth. Ask questions and explore-- because these are the only tools that allow us to get to more knowledge.When we stop asking questions and exploring we stunt our ability to grow.

In life-- we must literally wipe the chalkboard clear at the end of each day, saving only those things that we have learned..and using them to aid us --as we journey on. I am committed to excellence and this commitment requires that I take my punches on the chin and then do it even better the next time.The punches and bruises of life strengthen us, they let us know that we are only human--traveling on a human experience filled with pain and triumph..the pain and discomfort prepare us to breathe in and embrace the triumph.

So this week ladies embrace the learning curves in your life --they are merely the resting places, where growth and learning are incubated.

Go Forth and Do Amazing Things!

Kind Regards,

Pauline

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Walking On Water

Image
Pauline Respress, M.Ed., We can learn a lot about faith by watching a mere leaf float on water. The leaf calmly floats even though it is surrounded by a vast amount of water. The leaf is not flailing it is accepting where it is and embracing it. This is much how I see faith. I see the spirit as the water and my physical self as the leaf.  My spirit guides me as to where I need to be, but I must trust my spirit to carry me. We become frustrated with our lives when we fight and begin flailing in our spirit. The spirit encamps us, it is our true north, but we must become like the leaf and allow it to guide us. It is a union that we must seek, in order to become one in ourselves. True faith is born out of understanding this union. When we can become silent enough in our heads we can marry the two-- and become stronger in our faith. And then when God leads us to a place, we must activate our faith and dive in--understanding that he will never allow us to sink. We will either float or
Read more

We Must "Be Love" to "Have Love" ....

Image
This journey is teaching me a lot of things, but the most profound lesson that I have learned is that in order to have love in our lives, we must be the love that we want to see. It is easy to be hate, because hate does not require much work, hate does not require-- practicing forgiveness or understanding or compassion; it merely requires finding reasons to not do the work required to get to more love in our lives. Loving at times --can be messy, it requires letting down all of our guards and diving into unknown places --while abandoning all of our fears and reservations. Loving is an action word, it is the rolling up of our sleeves and allowing ourselves to be vulnerable enough-- to take the punches that sometimes accompanies getting to love. We all come equipped with artificial guards that protect and soothe us--they are the warm blankets that protect us from the world. But sometimes in order to get to more love-we must be willing to lower our guard and share the love that lie
Read more

Paschal's Wager

Image
Paschal's Wager is a suggestion posed by French philosopher writer and mathematician, Blaise Paschal, that clearly rationalizes (for me) our belief in Christ.  Paschal believed that in deciding on accepting religion we must first view it as a wager, betting on the fact that God exist and if he doesn't we lose nothing. If he doesn't we have lived a life that is guided by the teachings of Jesus Christ and we have lived as though we have faith, we have also lived an enriched life that is based primarily on love. Some may argue that this rationalization is far-fetched and that they cannot place all of their belief in something or someone that they can not see and that the teachings are merely dogma that people use to hide behind. But for me --I'd rather hide behind love than not--I'd rather be guided by principles that enrich my life than not. What is the alternative? living a empty shell of a life that anything goes and that is guided by our own insatiable whims. Wel
Read more