101 Most Powerful Proverbs in the Bible
Chapter One
Brain Stretching and Ear Tuning
The hearing ear and the seeing eye, the LORD has made them both.
Proverbs 20:12
ALL you have to do is pay attention." Thus said my scoutmaster back
in Boy Scout days. Whatever we were learning- tying knots, flag
signals-he firmly believed we could master it easily, so long as we
paid attention to what he showed us. He told us that if we could
memorize the lyrics to all the pop music hits (and we did), we could
certainly learn to tie basic knots.
"All you have to do is pay attention." Thus said my college biology
teacher. The class members were learning the life cycles of various
forms of algae. It was neither fun nor exciting, yet he assured us
the knowledge would have some value further down the line (not
true), plus it "stretched the brain muscles" (so he said) to
memorize the sequences of biological processes. He was right about
the stretching.
Our brain muscles got a good stretching, and memorizing was not so
difficult, so long as we paid attention.
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