The Eternal Students

Existence is an endless education. It is the platform God uses to teach us everything and anything we can possibly imagine. If existence is infinite, we will never run out of things to learn, things to do, relationships to have, and games to play. That's the glory of eternity and infinity. It is endless experience and endless opportunity.

We are eternal students. We are here to learn, to grow, and to simply "be." I believe that the process of learning never ceases even after this life ends. Existence is a school unlike any school or university in society. 

On earth, knowledge is limited. We only have a finite amount of knowledge and a limited breadth of understanding. As a whole our species is pretty young and still in the "milk" phase of understanding existence even with our impressive set of advancements over the last few centuries. We haven't quite reached "steak dinner" level when it comes to the sheer scope and glory of what else exists.

In the broader existence, knowledge is limitless. There is no bottom to the fathoms of knowledge and no pinnacle to how high the mountain of truth goes in existence. As eternal students of an eternal school, we have no cap on time and no limit on the depth, scope, power, wonder, and beauty of the countless forms of knowledge, truth, and love that exist in that infinite school.

In short, we will be students of existence forever, and the Creator will be the perfect professor. Our "know it all" teacher. He will teach us the boundless truths of mathematics, the biology of an endless amount of ecosystems, the mythologies, legends, rituals, festivals, and histories of countless cultures, the wonders of an unending amount of realms, the countless games and strategies, and the countless forms of love and glory.

I choose to believe this, because this is my hope. I consider myself an eternal student of an eternal lesson. An eternal game. Where winning and losing are never final, and there is always an opportunity to win again and where losing always has a lesson that is invaluable no matter how harsh the loss was.

Even in my real life I seem to be indefinitely bound to academia. MSU sure hasn't got rid of me, and I wouldn't have it any other way.

I look at existence, collectively, as a university with a bottomless library and light and truth that has no pinnacle.

As a child of God, I am also his eternal student. His eternal competitor.

We all are.

 Some of us do better at handling what He gives us than others, and some of us appreciate the gifts He gives more than others, but we are all His children.

A parent is the first and most important teacher of a child, so we are also ALL his students.

We're eternal students.