https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/022722.cfm
I quote:
Can a blind person guide a blind person?
Will not both fall into a pit?
No disciple is superior to the teacher;
but when fully trained,
every disciple will be like his teacher.
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When we gaze into a mirror we recognise the reflection of our superficial appearance, notwithstanding that within our life there is living at one with us Our Saviour inviting us to reflect His life, into our own.
The role of a wise teacher is to open the eyes of his pupils, letting them experience all that their sight enables them to learn. Inevitably we will discover that our easy choice to find fault in our travelling companions, will provide us with more than sufficient reason to examine our own behaviour. We learn from the positive, and negative behaviour of others how best we should live our own life. Self correction enables the wise pupil to put right, all that they observe needs correcting in the conduct of those who unwittingly become our teachers.
“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.”~ Alexandra K.Trenfor
There is another teacher living within our life guiding us through the ebbs, and flows of our life's journey asking us to let Him be our counsellor in all matters. To be able to hear Him, and abide by His counselling requires the pupil to sacifice their wants, to serve the requests of The One offering to shepherd His children through our life's journey until its completion.
When we embrace the truth that we don't know it all, and on many an occasion a solution to our many dilemmas eludes us, our silence permits humility to take up residence in our life, thereby enabling us to hear and listen to our interior life guiding us out of our self imposed difficulties, onto a path pointing us in the direction that Our Father has designed for our well being.
Here I am! I stand at the door and knock.
If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in and eat with that person, and they with me. ~ Apocalypse 3:20
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