I know some things, but not many things do I know, compared to the many things yet to be known.
I understand quite a few things, but not all things, for I do know, understanding is not about me or original to me.
I have answers to both some great and small questions; but it’s not the only answers to my questions or the final answers to be known.
I love much but not enough to get the work of love done all alone. I know loving the world will help my knowing.
I hope you don’t feel bad for me or think I feel sad for myself. I feel like I am in a great ‘state of hope’.
President Bush indicated it takes a thumpin to know some things. My heart is thumpin to know many things.
Things I thought I really knew, are changing day by day. So what do I really know at the end of each day? I know I can’t control change of too many things, and those I do are minute in range.
One thing, I think I know, I must continue to learn, but stop and make sure that I understand some things, or my learning may have all been in vain.
I heard the following quote recently from Sec. Donald Rumsfeld and it sure seems like it summoned up my knowing, or at least the things I think I know.
“The Unknown_As we know, _There are known knowns. _There are things we know we know. _We also know _There are known unknowns. _That is to say _We know there are some things _We do not know. _But there are also unknown unknowns, _The ones we don’t know _We don’t know.”
Feb. 12, 2002, Department of Defense news briefing
Hum, maybe you can share right here with us some things you know or think you know.
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“I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.”
Bob Segar
That song before. Gary, it doesn’t look like anybody else picked up on it?
First time posting, hope nobody minds?
Capt. B
Welcome aboard, Brian. How does that old song go?
Hi, Brian…looks like I missed picking something up….It sure seems like an interesting song…espcially since it seems to come to ones mind after reading Saras blog….:)dj
Hi Brian, maybe we should add a new lyric “I should of known then what I think I know now.”
Thanks for posting.
Gary
Brian and Gary, I see you two are getting it. Wendy would say “she’s a feeling it.
I think I know what Gary below is saying…I used to hear people say ignorance(lack of knowledge) is bliss…now I know…its not….especially when you find out what youve been ignorant(lacking of knowledge) in….then you find out just how ignorant(with out knowledge) you really were….dj
I’ve heard the expression,often, “What they don’t know won’t hurt them.” I wonder where that came from originally and I wonder what the BIBLE teaches concerning that. Is it saying if you don’t know a situation or a circumstance it won’t or can’t affect you negavively? Well, we certainly know situations where that is completely untrue. However, I can see both sides of the coin. There are times when a parent may not want or need to tell the child certain things, inappropriate, age-wise things. But also, if you were not well, and didn’t know it, couldn’t that hurt you? Or as in the Bible, if you know not the Lord, are ignorant of what He has done for us, have not known about salvation, couldn’t that certainly be detrimental? Does anyone have other scenarios where this may or may not be a truism?
Here are a few things that the Word of God does not want us to be ignorant of. You might want to study some of them for your edification. After all Dorothy your comment made me do it! 🙂
Romans 1:13
Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.
Romans 10:3
For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.
Romans 11:25
For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
1 Corinthians 10:1
Moreover, brethren, I would not that ye should be ignorant, how that all our fathers were under the cloud, and all passed through the sea;
1 Corinthians 12:1
Now concerning spiritual gifts, brethren, I would not have you ignorant.
2 Corinthians 1:8
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:
2 Corinthians 2:11
Lest Satan should get an advantage of us: for we are not ignorant of his devices.
1 Thessalonians 4:13
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.
2 Peter 3:8
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Corinthians 2:11..Lest Satan should get an advatage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices… (Get an Advantage of us)..boy if this one sentence doesn’t get one to want to have some knowelege of or awareness of something …If we are ignorant of his devices…and he is slick and sneaky…remember he’s called serpant…we had better not be ignorant……..(I have more to study)….dj
One thing reading your blog awoke in me is a new knowing of the respect the word ‘know’ should have. I began to listen to myself in conversations. I sure do respond to a lot of statements people make with an “I know”. So I began to think…do I really know? And exactly what do I know and why do I know it? Is it statistically proven or simply perceived? Can I back up my “I know” with factual reasoning or am I just guessing? Or worse yet believing I know when I really know nothing about it at all? Wow! I may be more cautious now to say “I know”. After I read your blog I thought to really know something is a serious thing. For instance yesterday I thought I knew something about how to do a particular floral design…until somebody who knew more showed me how to do it much more effectively both design and cost wise. So really I didn’t know very much at all. I guess I will agree with you, Sara, on knowing this …”I must continue to learn”. For what I thought I knew yesterday may not be what I need to know today.
after reading your reply Debi and it made me think and it seems many people say I know in conversations just as you were talking about and it caused me to wonder if they/we really know or are just replying out of habit…which isnt good either…wow..dj
Thank you for this beautiful article. Every year I learn that there is so much to learn about teaching children. I think I know a little, but we are constantly learning how to do a better job at it. Changing to adapt better methods may or may not be a better knowing of what best meets students’ needs. My colleagues and I have to constantly be aware of what we think students know or don’t know. Perhaps they have no knowing of a word or concept which causes them a lack of understanding for the whole passage read.
I also learn from students every year and their parents as many travel and have a knowing in their special field. That sharing helps all in the community to at least have a general understanding. Like you, may we all continue to learn and have an understanding of what we have learned, even if it changes tomorrow which it may or may not.
I was privileged to hear Dr. Jeremiah on the radio this morning. He said something that definitely is some “food for thought”! “If we don’t MOVE forward with what we know, then what we DON’T know will PARALYZE us.”
One thing this said to me was that we should stay active and working at the things we know we do well and can accomplish. If we focus on the things we don’t know how to do well we may just end up doing nothing. I personally experience a re-energizing when I put my ‘known’ God given gifts and talents to work and do something with them. When I lose my focus on these I tend to get unhealthily absorbed in what I don’t know how to do and lose precious time and energy spinning my wheels and not accomplishing anything. I guess you could say, Needles, paralyzed. So I have found it best to keep in forward motion with what I know to do until I know to change direction and do something different.
Needles, as I read this I was reminded of a time when I was maybe 5-8 years old and I had a friend her name was Carmen and she had polio..and her mother used to ask us myself and other little friends to come over and play in the yard with carmen and get her to use her legs,…at the time we didnt know…we would just play and kick the ball and try riding the tricyle and crawl through cardboard boxes and just had a good time….as I said at the time we didnt know…but now I know and her mother knew then..that had we not kept Carmen exercising her muscles she would have lost even that movement that she had..back then…I remember Carmen before we moved walking in braces but she used what she knew …if she had not…..Wow needles…what a thing to think about…..dj