If you are a struggling learner, If you are feeling lost and forgotten by your teachers, If you are needing help and have tried Googling the answers to your questions, Then this article is for you. Are you taking the April 15th ACT and need help with studying? Stay tuned for a special offer. Perfection. It seems like an impossible task. Especially if you are a struggling learner. Is it possible to get closer to perfection if you are a struggling learner? Even if your teachers aren’t helping you find the answers that you need? Of course! But where to start? Love. Wait what? LOVE. How does love help me learn something I have struggled for years to learn? What Quick Learners Do that Struggling Learners Don'tFirst you must answer some questions to get a better understanding of what struggling learners do that quick learners don’t.
If you answered yes to any of these questions, then you are struggling with love. Hear me out. If you had love, you wouldn’t beat yourself up about a mistake. Edison didn’t complain that it took him 10,000 times to make a light bulb. He just kept trying until he got it right. Mistakes can sometimes actually work out in your favor because you learn something that you didn’t know before. Most inventions happen by accident. The power of love: 1 Corinthians 13: 4-8
Learning is a journey. For some, learning comes naturally. For others, not so much. When you are stressed about learning something, it seems to take twice as long to learn it. Think about it. Think about a time that you were running late for an appointment. Didn’t it seem to take you twice as long to get everything done that you wanted to get done? You seemed to lose all of your stuff which just made matters worse. However, if you are patient and calm, learning comes much more naturally. Now think of a time in which you had plenty of time to get to an appointment. Things went so much smoother that you even hit every green light on the way there. Learning is much the same as getting ready for an appointment. The more time you waste worrying about the results, the less time you have to get yourself ready to learn. I Bet You Didn't Know This!The hardest part about struggling to learn isn’t overcoming it. It’s not?
Multiple Ways to Learn
If you have tried learning a skill one way and it doesn’t work, then try a different way. If you must try as many ways as you can to learn a skill. One or several may actually work and you have learned the skill better than most. Don't Listen to Satan
As you see others learning easily don’t be irritable about it. Don’t hope that something bad happens to someone because they are getting something that you aren’t yet. Be happy for them and pray for them. Satan likes to fill our heads with sinful thoughts and words because he doesn’t like it when something goes well for God’s people. Don’t listen to Satan. Learning is Fun NOT Shameful
If you cheat to find the answers, you have only learned to cheat instead of learning to love learning. Cheating is taking credit for someone else’s hard work. Satan loves to tell us to take the easy way out and not struggle our way through life. That way when you do cheat, you have to hide it for fear of being caught. Satan loves to separate us from people so that we can’t rejoice in the truth. The truth is that God’s way of learning is best and more enjoyable. Instead rejoice when you overcome your learning struggles by finding a strategy that works for you so that you can now teach someone else what you have learned. God brings you together with others to rejoice in your new found learning strategy. Love the Game, Don't Hurt the Player
The burden of learning struggles can be difficult, but the journey to overcome those learning struggles can be the most exciting. As you learn to work through your struggles with love, ultimate love, you become stronger, hope for the future more and believe in yourself. God is Love
No one can take your learning away from you. Once you learn it, it is yours for life. Loving yourself and God helps with the process. Perfection. God is the only one that we know is perfect. By knowing love and loving Him, we can overcome things we never thought were possible. I challenge you, this lent, to reflect on how you love yourself and God. Lent is a time of renewal and reflection. If you are not loving enough, you are longing for something that you can’t reach. God is waiting to help you on your journey. He can’t wait to show you what you CAN DO!
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Do you ever wonder where Valentine’s Day comes from? It comes from a man named Valentine. He was a bishop of the church.
He lived during the third century. It was illegal to talk about Jesus and be a Christian at that time. St. Valentine loved talking about Jesus which got him arrested. While in jail, the judge started discussing Jesus with St. Valentine. He wanted proof that Jesus was real. The judge had a daughter who was blind and dared Valentine to prove Jesus was real by healing his daughter of her blindness. Valentine put his hands over the daughter’s eyes and prayed to Jesus to heal her. Jesus did it. The judge was so happy that he fasted and was baptized a Christian along with 44 members of his family. The judge let all of the Christians go. Lies You Have Been Told
Are you like the judge that didn't believe St. Valentine? Do you believe the lies that people tell you about life? When you hear that there is another way to look at life, do you want proof that it works?
Of course you do. We all have listened to the lies of others. We may have even told a few because we didn’t know any better. For example, you may struggle with learning. You may believe that since you struggle, you will always struggle with learning. That is not true. How do I know?
I struggled. I struggled in math and I was supposed to be one of the smart kids.
I also believed the lies that I was never going to be good in math. I even told my Algebra 2 teacher that I was never going to need this class, because I was going to be an elementary teacher. They don’t teach Algebra 2. Boy, did I have to eat those words!!! Have you ever heard of the phrase: “You make plans and God laughs!”?
Yeah.
Well, I made plans to be an elementary teacher. But God had other plans. He helped me be determined to learn math well. He also gave me the passion of teaching other high students how to love math more than I do. What should you do?Remember that today is Valentine’s Day. Today we are supposed to love. Love one another. And love ourselves. In the bible it says in 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 “Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.” To me this verse says that you may struggle now. But you can find a way to succeed, especially in learning. You just haven’t found the right way yet. Steps to Take to Succeed
The first thing you need to do is believe you can use your brain to learn new skills regardless of what it is.
Then set a goal for what you want to learn. Next find a strategy that works to teach you the skill. And finally, practice. Think about something that you are good at. How much did you practice? No, really. You probably practiced it quite a bit before you became good at it. Do the same amount of practice for something you struggle with, and in time, you will be good at that too. As you practice, be patient. It is going to take time to learn something difficult. If it helps do what Valentine did when he needed help. Pray to God for help. Ask Him to open your mind for new strategies to grow. Valentine lived during the third century which was when Romans still controlled the land. Today it’s the 21st century. A lot has changed since Valentine lived. We have more access to information than Valentine did, making it easier to learn new strategies. As you beat your struggles you will see the truth about what you CAN do versus what you CAN’T do. Next week we will take a closer look at 1 Corinthians 13: 4-7 to forgive yourself and give yourself grace. |
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