What We Learn

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 Life is a learning process.  We first learn to walk.  We then learn to talk.  And we learn until the end of life and then we learn how to die.  We learn not to go gentle into that good night.  Life is a learning process.  Perhaps we learn no greater lesson than how to love beginning with loving ourselves.  

I’ve smoked a pipe for over fifty years and I’m still learning about pipes and tobacco.  We learn both good and bad from family.  But at some point we learn about love and it never stops.  Love might be the most difficult lesson of all.  Learning to love teaches us patience.  And some people never learn except love just for themselves.  

It is said life is an adventure.  We experience life and learn from experience.  If there is one expert about love it had to be Jesus.  No one loves with a perfect love.  For some, love is an experiment.  I can’t say I love smoking a pipe, but I like it a lot.  We too often learn to love things and use people.  While it should be the other way around, too often it isn’t.  It’s never too late to learn.  But some lessons in life are hard.  

I’ve decided to love with a pure heart.  But I can’t define this.  Seek and you’ll find.  Some people find peace and love only by facing death.  I’m not sure what the final thoughts are of someone who takes their own life.  I can’t say I only guess.  But love is the finality of life.  It is the final hope of most anyone.

Well, these are my thoughts this morning as I smoke my Peterson Sherlock Holmes pipe with my Old Professor pipe tobacco.  My coffee this morning is My Common Coffee from Guatemala.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave

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