We Need a Teacher
Learning never stops, and in every walk of life or every occupation, there are skills and nuances of position that must be learned from the more experienced. We glimpse this in high school, but after graduation, the realities become full-blown.
The form of the teacher can morph later in life . . . some of these teachers show up in the form of drill sergeants who scream obscenities or as demur college professors who invite us over for high tea and lady fingers, but listen we must. In some professions, such as working on deep sea drilling rigs or flying an F-15, failure to learn from the teacher can result in swift and immediate death.
Other failures can be just as devastating to us, whether those failures are financial, relational, or spiritual. Better listen. Better learn. Better find the person who can mentor and lead to a clearer understanding.
We learn these lessons in high school. But sometimes we don't embrace them until much later in life. After all, some pupils are just stubborn. But it's never too late to find a teacher.
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