Not knowing is probably the best place to begin, knowing that each of us has much to learn.
John Henry Newman's words " Lead Kindly Light" (1) invites us to follow Our Father's Word, doing all that He asks of us. When we believe that we possess all the right answers to life's many questions, proven by our university diploma declaring our academic achievements, a thought emerges that we know best.
Information is not knowledge.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
You need experience to gain wisdom.
~ Albert Einstein
During my primary school years my teacher, Chariton Reynolds reminded me that our curriculum set book reading was an introduction into the minds of well respected authors, sharing their understandings drawn from their life's experiences. Daniel Dafoe's "Robinson Crusoe" prompted me to ask many questions, with Chariton Reynolds responding to me with the awareness that his years as a POW of the Japanese could also a fill a book, or even two. Mr. Reynolds attempted to explain to me that each of us must make our own journey of self discovery, thereby revealing all that we are in becoming the result of our endeavours.
“Experience is the most brutal of teachers but you learn, my God, do you learn” ~ C.S. Lewis
Apart from being a sacrament Baptism provides us with the awareness that immersing oneself in the care of The Saviour, leads us along the road that Our Father has designed for our well being. Immersion into the deep end of life's passage acknowledges our acceptance of The Saviour's leadership until we draw our last breath.
Paul of Tarsus was a rising star in the The Sanhedrin, a gifted academic with ambition to reach the highest level of Jewish religious authority in Israel, until his Damascus Road conversion when Paul readily acknowledged that he knew nothing. Paul's aspirations collapsed into an awareness that all that he thought mattered in his relationship with God (The Mosaic Laws) were rendered futile.
Our salvation is of The Father, by His will and according to His plan, and purpose (Acts 22:14). The Saviour made it clear to Paul that he had gone his own way for long enough. The time had arrived for The Father to enact His plan into the life of Paul.
Without the way, there is no going;
without the truth, there is no knowing;
without the life, there is no living.
~ Thomas a Kempis
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