"Instruction begins when you, the teacher, learn from the learner; put yourself in his place so that you may understand… what he learns and the way he understands it." Søren Kierkegaard
School is starting. No matter what our actual jobs or defined roles, we are all sometimes called to be teacher and at other times called to be student. May we pray in these days for the student’s heart and wisdom; the hunger to learn whatever we need most to know and the wisdom to recognize the teacher wherever she or he appears. And may we pray that when students appear, our teacher’s soul would guide us into their hearts and minds so that we might learn what they understand and understand what they would learn from us. Only in such prayer, we are joined by the Teacher becoming there students of our own deepest longings to be understood even as we seek to understand. Amen
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