Daily writing prompt

What experiences in life helped you grow the most?

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Boy Scouts comes to mind, since we spent so much time learning what we’d now consider life skills, and were availed of so many different opportunities and enriching experiences that made us better equipped and more aware.

I learned important things from my Mom and Dad and grandparents– how to behave, how to treat people. The college years gave me exposure to a bigger, more diverse world. Marriage and parenthood opened my eyes to real responsibilities and commitment. And spending twenty-six years as a pastor exposed me to the myriad joys and travails of being human, living without all the answers.

Daily writing prompt

What experiences in life helped you grow the most?

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Being raised in a loving family, working in a restaurant during high school, going to college, watching people who worked hard until the job was done, getting married and raising a family, picking up stakes and heading to Seminary, holding pastorates in several congregations over the course of 26 years, traveling to various places, reading, listening to serious people, including comedians, who pay attention to what’s going on in the world, writing in a journal and posting things in here that help me work through and give expression to thoughts and observations and feelings.