I haven’t written a blog in a while because I haven’t felt that I had much to write about. We haven’t done anything crazy or mind-blowing lately and so I figured I would just write a bit of a journal entry and let folks know what’s been going on. And then I got an email from my mother.
Emails from my mother are always interesting. There’s always a little news from home, some obligatory ‘Mom wisdom’, and so forth, but this one was a little different. It was all challenge. She challenged me to ask deeper questions; to ponder life, relationships, and meanings; to ponder the Heavenly Father and His love (and everything else about Him); and to explore and meditate on Creation in whatever ways I can.
The gist of it was this: to be blessed with this kind of opportunity and to entertain the possibility of taking away only a few lessons or surface observations would be quite a shame.
As life is slower here, I should have time to meditate, think, philosophize, and theologize. For some reason, these possibilities didn’t enter my mind until Mom spelled them out. Why is it that mothers can see the glaringly obvious with such clarity? I suppose there must have been some point at which they learned to glean a little bit more from life.
I want to learn how to do that instinctively. Since the lesson’s just been spelled out for me, I must imagine that now would be a prime time to learn it. Of course, if an email from Mom isn’t enough of an object lesson to make it stick, I’m sure God will teach me some other way. However, I think I’d rather learn it correctly the first time without going through the extra pain of summer classes, as it were.
I thank the Lord that He created my mind to be inquisitive and adaptive. That fact gives me some extra measure of hope, at least.
And, as always…
Thanks, Mom.
