“The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of a doubt, what is laid before him.” Leo Tolstoy”
I am, at times, the “slow-witted man,” at times the guy who “knows already.” Most often, I suspect, I am the guy who is somewhere in between – the guy reluctant to take in new things because, well, they are new and challenge the stability of this carefully constructed “house of thoughts” I have struggled to construct and keep together. And while I don’t know this is exactly the point Paul was trying to make, what comes to mind here is this: “Do not conform any longer to the patterns of this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.” Romans 12:2
It is, after all, quite difficult to renew a closed mind.
It occurs to me... 