Change is the only constant in life. While change may well be the most undesirable situation for any human being, it is the best place to test out whether one really understood or knows what they have learned. For many years, I was planted in a healthy community where I was ‘comfortably’ learning and growing. Under the leadership and guidance of certain well-experienced expedition guides, I managed to rub something off their shoulder onto mine. I learned with them, I grew with them, I increased in knowledge, and I increased in wisdom. There were a lot of heart changing and paradigm shifting that took place in me. I grew as a person. Per-Son!
While there were a lot of knowledge and the ‘know-how’s that I have accumulated, I find that it is in transition or change where I am put into the real test – the test of whether I have truly grown as a person. It is the test to show whether I have internalized all that I have learned, putting them into practice in real life situation, or have I just accumulated ‘knowledge’ that doesn’t do any good except for taking up space in my brain or help me look good, mature and knowledgeable on the outside.
Speaking as a person in-transition where I am experiencing some major changes in my life, I find that these changes are really testing the substance within me. It is easy for my library of knowledge to tell me what is the best solution, what I ‘should’ be doing and how I ‘should’ be taking the whole situation. However, the test is not whether I know what to do (which is not difficult), but is whether I take that little seed of faith that has been planted in me and allow it to work itself out through my action and behaviour. It is the test of my being, not my knowledge.
So how true it is to say we never stop learning to be human. We think that we know something when we are able to talk about it, offer solution about it but most of the time we don’t. Accumulating knowledge and learning about certain things is only the first step to learning. And until we have experienced trying situation where we have to apply it, we have not truly learned. And change is the best place to test it out.
So come on Mel Mel, now is the time to allow that faith to grow into action. Show yourself faithful!!