I am not always right.

One of my best friends and I keep touch by writing letters--yes, real snail-mail letters!  She's very dear to me and I appreciate her insight and wisdom.  As I reread one of her letters tonight, a few sentences stuck out as just what I needed to learn today:

"I feel like I've grown as a person so much in these short months of marriage, primarily in the departments of patience and biting my tongue.  I've learned I'm not always right.  There is always another way, sometimes a better way, to accomplish a task."

We all live, in great part, inside our own brains.  It's normal, of course, and it has to be that way.  But I need to learn to get outside of my own head more often and listen to what all these other awesome brains have to say!  We all have different talents and ideas and experiences and perspectives to help each other out. So cool.

This is what I wrote to put in my notebook of wisdom tonight:

I am not always right.

There are better ways to accomplish things than by my ideas alone.  Listen to others, respect their ideas and opinions, and be open-minded. Remember that God knows all truth and that we work together to come to know the truth He knows.  This is the beauty of working with others!  Each person possesses unique strength to contribute to the world—and unique talents that can teach and enlighten.  Wisdom means recognizing the truth that others have and then adding it to my own knowledge of truth.