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As much as the bible is a treasure for me I do wish I was able to read and understand it in Hebrew at least. The Hebrew language is fascinating to me, their words are completely different than the English language even just a single letter in their language holds profound meaning and symbolism in it. Can you imagine how sacred that must make the scriptures in their language? Not to say they already aren't but I bet if one is able to read it in their language it would open a whole new depth of the word of God
This bothers me. I'm pretty good at judging the intelligence level of people, and I've got you clocked in at roughly 110-120 IQ. aka "above average." I wouldn't be surprised to find out you were 125 even. You might go up to 135 even. (And no need to tell me what it is, if you even know, just saying what bothers me.) I've seen some of the stuff you got interested in and studied. Not my thing, but, generally speaking, I saw the heart of someone who likes studying what he wants to study and is above average at learning that way.
You kind of remind me of my husband in that way, but you also frustrated me to death for the same reason he frustrates me to death. You don't think you're smart!
Yeesh! If God gives you brains, it's a gift. Use them! Just because many people in your life have inferred you can't learn does not mean you CAN'T learn!
Now, seriously. I get not getting languages. But do you know how I know I don't get languages? Three years of Latin class to finish up to Latin II!!! (I needed two years of a foreign language to go to college. Never said I couldn't take three years to get a good two years out of it. lol) Linguistics class in college might as well have been written in Latin. (I can memorize words, so I could catch general drifts. I just could never understand the whole paragraph, so I passed. Barely! But Communications degree, so I had to take Linguistics. And oddly enough it fascinated me. I just didn't get it. ) A permanent Incomplete from my ESL (English as a Second Language) class, because sure enough, I got the English! I didn't get the second language! Incompletes are supposed to turn into Fs if what wasn't completed didn't get completed by the next semester, but my teacher liked me, because she saw how hard I tried. I was the Secretary of the Spanish Club but couldn't get Spanish. Most of my friends were Hispanic, and they interpreted for me. Became friends with most of the Spanish teachers in college, so thought I'd take Spanish. I did. Poor Dr. Martinez! I couldn't even say his name right. Should have gotten an F, but he gave me a C for trying so hard!
That's how I know I can't do other languages. It bothers me that you're so young and so smart yet think you can't either! Do you have proof you can't? Real proof? Or have you been listening to all those people who told you that you wouldn't amount to much? Because DANGIT!
You already have amounted to much! It's not easy to learn a language, but I think you've got the brains for it, if you would just stop listening to those Nattering Nabobs of Negativity still nesting in your head years after they have no voice in your life!
Dang it, Blain! Stop thinking you're dumb. You ain't!
And as often as I say I'm dumb. I'm not really dumb. I'm simply dumb about some things. (Blasted Internet comes down to language in the form of "coding," and I can't construct a web page on my own, because I don't get linguistics. Science. Love it. Not good at it. Math. Stink at math UNTIL you turn those arbitrary numbers into money. Money I get. Meaningless numbers, I don't. So give me statistics and accounting, but don't give me algebra or trig. )
And, just so you know, hubby gets this "pep talk" as needed too. The stupid Nabobs really cling for years. The first thing you have to learn is they were wrong.
The second thing you have to learn is they're still wrong!
The third thing you have to do is believe that!
Keep remembering that until you believe it!
You. are. NOT. stupid. You are ABOVE average in intelligence! Probably not a genius, but smarter than 50% of everybody is no slouch! And God gave you strong arms to help others? I believe that. God gave you the personality to listen? I believe that. You are gifted in the ministry of helps. (Don't know if you know that, but that is true too. If you don't know it, think it over, study it, and you'll get the light bulb moment when you realize God gave you that too. lol) God has given you much. One other thing he gave you that you don't seem to realize he did give you -- smarts! Believe the other and then you can start believing that.
(PS to, Steph, if you ever read this. Keep telling him this over and over again until he believes it. That, I hope, is your life long mission.)
'kay? (Weird to get yelled at for something good, isn't it?)