Reveries and Passions
Friday, July 08, 2005
more tomorrow than today | 1:09 AM |

I just had a man-to-man talk with one of my housemates. He told me a story...it went something like this:


There was once a professor who taught at a school for 30 years. As his teaching commitment ended, his retirement quickly came. On his last day of classes the new professor (who turned out to be one of his previous pupils) came to bid the elderly professor tidings on his retirement. The young prof (former pupil and a young chum) said to the elder prof, "You have not been teaching for 30 years...you've only taught for one year." At this, the elderly prof got irrate, but the young chum/prof continued, "You've only taught for one year because in the first year of teaching you were new and had to do everything from scratch. But in the years following all you did was recycle the material and taught each class word by word without adding anything new to it.".....


So what conclusion was drawn from this story? My Christian walk has been pathetic lately. I feel just like the elderly prof, drawing from past experiences over and over without trying anything new. Stagnancy came, and it seems like I've only a year of "teaching" for my 7 years of being a Christian. Maybe cause I have a commitment issue, or perhaps tis' a lack of discipline. Whatever the case, I needed to hear the story and to wake up.