When the student is ready the lessons make a whole lot of sense: parables lose their veil, proverbs wheel and come again, Jesus comes to life, holy spirit springs into action and the student’s trust in the process align with endless possibility and therefore has every will to obey the teacher.
Prematurely, none of this is comprendable. It does not even make it in one ear let alone out the other.
Still during those times the teacher continues to trust that striking the iron while it is hot is half the work already accomplished and the best comes when the student is on fire! Once the fire is well lit the student keeps the spark aflame. Then, and only then, the teacher’s work begins to yield much more fruit. The thing is, the process may take many teachers and much longer for some teachers especially when the teacher is also actively learning. I believe that each person is a teacher and learner, sometimes simultaneously; in fact, most times it is more simultaneously than isolate.
Prematurely, none of this is comprendable. It does not even make it in one ear let alone out the other.
Still during those times the teacher continues to trust that striking the iron while it is hot is half the work already accomplished and the best comes when the student is on fire! Once the fire is well lit the student keeps the spark aflame. Then, and only then, the teacher’s work begins to yield much more fruit. The thing is, the process may take many teachers and much longer for some teachers especially when the teacher is also actively learning. I believe that each person is a teacher and learner, sometimes simultaneously; in fact, most times it is more simultaneously than isolate.
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