Doctrinal Essays

Through the years I've learned a lot about a particular weakness of mine. This weakness is multi-faceted and becomes clearer to me with each passing year. I don't learn the way most people do. 1) I process information slowly - efficiently - but slowly. I liken my brain to an old computer with lots of memory, but a slow processor. 2) I am often blatantly ignorant of completely obvious facts. This one embarrasses me the most and is the reason I tend to prefer taking a back seat in group conversations, for fear I will expose this weakness. 3) The previous two weaknesses combine into the third weakness of being unable to speak my mind clearly when put on the spot. My mind is full of deep interwoven thoughts, but to get them out orally is extremely frustrating to me. Fortunately, the Lord has provided a way for me to do so through writing. I was recently reminded of these 'disabilities' when I was in my Biblical Hebrew class and had an awkward moment from category 2 abo...