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This past weekend Marta and I were invited to attend a hooding ceremony and graduation at George Fox Seminary. It was a pleasure to listen in as professors spoke one last time into the lives of their adult students. The students had the opportunity to share with those in the audience who have sacrificed so much to make their education possible. Students also gave praise to their instructors and fellow students who they have shared life with over the past few years. As the graduates walked in front of us I was looking for the face of that special lady we came to support. She was so beautiful! She was clearly beaming with pride and a sense of accomplishment. We were all so proud of her.  Let me tell you a little about this amazing lady.

She is one of seven children. This has its challenges and rewards. She has persevered through life’s pain in the most gracious and classy way possible. This lady is an elegant fighter and has not allowed life’s challenges to keep her down. With every curve she has found a way to seek God’s discernment and discover healing. She is continually growing and I suspect she will do so until her last breath. Her passion is to inspire the development of the inner life; a life that is in tune with and listening to Christ with each breath. This lady is real; there is no room for superficial fluff.

She has inspired me to live a life of purpose; influenced me to develop a healthy marriage relationship, helped me to learn perseverance, compassion, empathy, independence, the importance of service, good communication, and personal hygiene. I am still working on that last one. You may be asking who is this person and how could I get to know her. This amazing women is my Mom.  I am so proud of her!

Well done Master Mom!

Ecclesiastes 1:18 MSG
Much learning earns you much trouble. The more you know, the more you hurt.

Proverbs 1:7 MSG
Start with God—the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study.  Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life.  ~ Henry L. Doherty

Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.  ~Mark Twain

Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.  ~Abraham Lincoln

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty.  ~Henry Ford

Learning is like rowing upstream:  not to advance is to drop back.  ~Chinese Proverb

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.  ~Confucius

Patience is the companion of wisdom.  ~St. Augustine

The years teach much which the days never knew.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.  ~Isaac Asimov

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.  ~George Bernard Shaw

Quotes from “The Quote Garden!”

 

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