If you give a late professor with a doctorate twenty minutes...

I'm a teacher;although, I no longer actively teach as a career. This blog is part of my gift on paper. I do it because it feels right. Sometimes I get a niggling thought for the blog in the middle of the night when I wake up to pad off to the bathroom. I'm fifty-three. The trips have become more frequent. O.K. too much. Anyway, that thought will stay with me throughout the day and pop back in my mind periodically. However, I try not to obsess about it. I try to stay involved in the activities of the day. It's a miracle my brain hasn't exploded, previously, with the  swirling energy of worries, irritations,responsibilities, and creative ideas all fighting for what I once believed was a closed, limited space between my two ears. Now, I try more often to allow my creative outlets to happen. You can tell by that last sentence I'm not fully there because I'm not sure I can use "try" and "allow" in the same breath, obviously a work in progress. I find that if I trust the message to be there some time during the day, and I promise myself I will write it every day, it will come. I 'm not grading the message right now, just commenting on it's origin.

In spite of the fact I teach and follow other "teachers" I value greatly, we are only messengers. The origin of, for the sake of this piece I'll call it "universal truth," comes from a source that needs no human voice, yet uses them often. It states in the Bible that we are taught by God. It tells us to listen to his voice. It reminds us that we have an advocate that will lead us to all truth. That's deep. Just writing it made me pause and hold my chest for a moment as if I wanted to grab hold of that teacher and say, "Speak a little louder to me more often. I don't listen very well at times!" Where does that voice reside? In me. Are you thinking about this? I mean really thinking about it? If you are, it's O.K. to stop and contemplate it awhile. I did while writing this, and I just want to say thank-you to my teacher.

The advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and remind you of all that I have said to you. John 14:26

As for you, the anointing that you received from him abides in you, and so you do not need anyone to teach you. But as his anointing teaches you about all things, and is true and is not a lie, and just as it taught you, abide in him. 1 John 2:27

Peace.

                                                          Love, Linda