Let Him Teach Me?
This Week's Theme: Molding Men
Kent Ira Groff
Friday, January 26, 2001
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Key Bible Verse: I myself am convinced, my brothers, that you yourselves are full of goodness, complete in knowledge and competent to instruct one another (Romans 15:14).
Bonus Reading:
I had enlisted my 24-year-old son to help me learn the complexities of my new computer. Sitting next to me, he noticed the worry and impatience in my voice. "Just relax. Don't panic, Dad; one thing at a time."
Instantly I saw myself, as clearly as if it were yesterday, next to my son on the front seat of my car, saying those same words to him as he clutched, shifted, and braked, anxiously learning to operate a stick-shift transmission.
I paused, recalling my own father's way of withdrawing in such tense moments. Now in my fifties, could I reshape this moment of frustration into a moment of intimacy? I found myself telling my son of the flashback going on in my head. We laughed and embraced. Then we proceeded with the task.
How quickly the apprentice-mentor role reverses itself! You have children or you know younger colleagues who are wiser than you in a myriad of different fields. Sadly, incidents when the elder feels dumb often end in shaming each other. The spiritual invitation in such occasions is to risk opening the door of your life to make the heart connections.
—Kent Ira Groff in Journeyman Respond:
How teachable are you? Can you learn from someone younger? Thought to Apply:
The trouble with being a parent is that by the time we're experienced, we're unemployed.
Vern McLellan (author)Adapted from Journeyman (Upper Room Books, 1999). 1 of 1
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God, I am willing to be used by you. Show me how to give what I have learned from you to someone else who needs it.
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