Short story: The boy who never liked learning until his father showed him how learning is about our loving God, and our teachers, too

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A young lad asked his father, who just happened to me a Minister of religion, why it is that one has to learn anything while here in our lives, on the Earth. "I hate going to school," he said, to his father, one day. "Why can't we just live as God lives, learning nothing, but being all, knowing all, without the drudge of learning it?" he further put to his father, the Reverend Samuel Bluestone. His father, smiled, and answered him like this: "What makes you think that God does not learn?" "Now, in the Bible, Jesus told his disciples in Saint John's gospel, chapter 15, verse 15, that '"Everything that I learned from my Father, I have made known to you."' "and so this infers that Jesus himself needed to be taught, and that he too, needed to learn things from his father." "If this is so, the Father, or God, must know more than the Son, or Jesus." "The truth is though that God is still learning too, and he shares his learning with others, his son especially so. God learns from what he has done, and in effect, God is active in his learning, as we all are when we do anything too." "God might be thought of as all-knowing, but some things, not part of this, are still open in him to learn, like the best way to treat his creation overall, for example." "So, my boy, we must all buckle down, and learn our school lessons, as well as our life lessons." "Remember too, what that great Italian artist, scientist, and inventor, once said:" '"Learning never exhausts the mind."' "Leonardo da Vinci, (1452 to 1519)." "You more exhaust yourself, by your not wanting to learn. Real learning energises you. It never depletes you of the energy to learn." "When you do your best to learn, you are also loving the teacher, God, and yourself, when you do this too. Life was created so that we can learn whilst we live it." The boy made a greater effort to learn then, after this talk with his father. Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Part of our living must be our learning.