Omer 2024 Day 24

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Day 24: Tiferet in Netzach, Beauty in Endurance

My 6-year-old is reading The Phantom Tollbooth with my husband and they are nearing the end. Milo has reached the princesses he set out to rescue after a very long journey.

"It has been a long trip," said Milo, climbing onto the couch where the princesses sat; "but we would have been here much sooner if I hadn't made so many mistakes. I'm afraid it's all my fault."

"You must never feel badly about making mistakes," explained Reason quietly, "as long as you take the trouble to learn from them. For you often learn more by being wrong for the right reasons than you do by being right for the wrong reasons."

"But there's so much to learn," he said, with a thoughtful frown.

"Yes, that's true," admitted Rhyme; "but it's not just learning things that's important. It's learning what to do with what you learn and learning why you learn things at all that matters."

There are many points in each of our journeys where we could give up. We could get stuck in ignorance or tedium, or spend our time doing someone else's work, or arguing in circles. But the world around us is more interesting, engaging, and beautiful when we take time to learn from all of our experiences.