25. I Can Unlearn
I have discovered that I can unlearn things. There are brand new things you learn that are like light bulbs suddenly lighting and you say “A-ha!” And there is also an “A-ha!” effect when something you thought you had learned gets turned upside down and you unlearn it.
One quick example is that for years and years I heard the quote: Love God and love your neighbor as yourself. It was interpreted as: Love yourself last. And I thought that I learned that and implemented it.
Then one day I was preaching on that text and came upon that little word “as.” It turned upside down. Because in my book that means that you have to love yourself in order to be able to love your neighbor.
Never realized that “as” was such a powerful word.
