Never Stop Learning

My grandfather played the organ.  He has two organs in his living room and a large lesley speaker to go with them.  When I was young and we would visit he would often play.  What I didn't realize then was that he never learned to play until after he retired.  He had many interests, he worked on cars, repaired radios and he had a creative approach to home wiring, but evidently he wanted to play music.  So after 30 years of working at Chrysler, he learns to play the organ.  We are never too old to learn something new.

Learning isn't about age, it's about curiosity.  Learning is about opening ourselves up to new ideas and new information.  Whether it is because we want to know it, or because we need to know it, the process is the same.  

Some lessons are hard to learn.  Some of the hardest are the personal lessons on how we live our lives.  Of course the challenging part isn't learning what to do, but to put that knowledge into practice.  Most of have some unhealthy practices.  The problem isn't that we don't know.  The kind of learning that makes us change what we do, is often a bit harder.

And we impart this in words not taught by human wisdom but taught by the Spirit, interpreting spiritual truths to those who are spiritual. The natural person does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are folly to him, and he is not able to understand them because they are spiritually discerned - 1 Corinthians 2:13-14

In school I have heard it said that some people teach for 30 years, others teach that first year 30 times.  I suppose every profession is like that.  Some people do it the same over and over, never improving.  Others use the experience to make improvements so that each time through is a little different and hopefully a little better.  Which are you.