Sugar Coated Lessons.
By bird123
@bird123 (10658)
United States
October 7, 2011 9:54pm CST
When it comes to learning and lessons in life, we often think of those hard lessons we learned. The adversity that created the need to learn sometimes sours the learning, thereby we expect all lessons to hurt. Does God send Happy lessons?? Do lessons sometimes come sugar coated?? Oh yes, I know they do.
What wonderful lessons have you learned from loving people in your life?? What lessons have you learned when your acts of love and kindness returned to you?? Aren't there lessons learned from good, close friends?? Let's not forget some of our greatest teachers of all, our children. Great joy lives amongst any problem.
Sometimes we choose that the painful lessons are the most important. Should that really be the case?? Let's not forget to see and value the Happy lessons with those wonderful people that share our lives with us.
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@6precious102 (4043)
• United States
8 Oct 11
One of the good lessons I've learned is that there is restoration through forgiveness. If I'm unwilling to forgive, it hurts me far more than the one I won't forgive.
I've learned that love is more powerful than hate. I think about my grandparents. I don't remember ever hearing them say an unkind word about others. I also don't know anyone who knew them who didn't like them.
Of course Jesus Christ is the prefect example of love and forgiveness. "Father, forgiven them for they don't know what they're doing." I can't imagine anyone showing greater love than to forgiven those who are killing him.
@starsailover (7829)
• Mexico
17 Oct 11
Hi bird: Yes, there are also some sugar coated lessons that, when you think about them you just smile. Fr example, one sugar coated lesson I never forget is that you enjoy your night when you go for a dinner with someone else and that the best part of preparing a gift for someone is to see the smile of this person you love and show him/ her how much you appreciate him/ her.
ALVARO
@Adoniah (7512)
• United States
8 Oct 11
The hard or painful lessons usually teach us what not to do. The happy lessons teach us what is enjoyable to do. However, if there were not both kinds, we would never know what happy is.
True Joy can never be completely attained without the experience of suffering. Part of the problem with the younger generations of today, is they have never really suffered. They lived after the bad wars and the current ones only touch them if they serve in the military or if a relative does.
Children do not teach us anything. The adults are and should be the teachers. A child is born an empty slate waiting to be taught the norms of its society. We as a society are not doing that. Children today are left too much to their own ideas and desires. They do not learn self control or that life can be very difficult. They do not learn that their is great honor in work no matter how low or how high the job is.
@bird123 (10658)
• United States
8 Oct 11
Sure, parents teach their children many things. In time, you will discover that much is learned from the interactions with our children. Each of God's children share that which is special about them with others, even their parents. Never assume children have nothing to teach even as they muddle through life in order to become responsible adults. It's all in the journey.
