Milk with your Meat?

I gave you milk to drink, not solid food; for you were not yet able to receive it. Indeed, even now you are not yet able, - 1 Corinthians 3:2

What come you here to do?  This is maybe one of the most important questions in Masonry. It is followed up by three very distinct answers. Yes, I know there are personal responses, but in our ritual, there are three.  I say that because I know I’ll get a response saying, “I joined to go do this other thing over here”. There is nothing wrong with that “other thing” over there, and I would not discourage anyone from doing that, in time.

But this page is very “symbolic Lodge” forward, so that is our focus, the Blue or Symbolic Lodge.

We are always on the quest for “further light,” we want to know more. But in our quest and thirst for more Masonic Knowledge, do we sometimes skirt over the light we have in front of us? Did we take the time to really focus on the lessons we were given and apply them? That is how you turn “knowledge into Wisdom”.  Knowing something does not really mean much unless you have come to really understand it. That only happens by letting the rubber meet the road and putting some mileage on it, and making it your own. Then you can sail forward to the next lesson. Because, like a beautiful building, one stone is placed on the other. If the stone below is not firm, the building is weak and will more than likely not pass city code.  Dang code inspectors.

Let me ask another question. I know I have referenced 1 Corinthians 3:2, and I am not doing so to be insulting at all. But to cause us to think and ask questions. First, do we really understand why we are here and what we have come to do? Do we really take the time to look at the Light we have been shown? Now for the third question.

We may have jumped on our ship and sailed far from the shore of our early lessons and thoughts. Do we ever look back and revisit them? Do we take time to re-evaluate where we have been and where we are going? If not, we should.

Masonry is, in my opinion, a living, breathing thing. It always has something to teach. Now, what it has to teach me may not be what it has to teach you. That’s ok, because we end up teaching each other. But it is important to revisit the early lessons from time to time. Why? Because you have changed. You are not the same person you were yesterday, last week, last year.  Because of that, you have a different perspective and will see the lesson a bit differently. Meaning you have progressed and will gain a different insight. More light and deeper wisdom.

Yes, as “baby masons,” we drink milk. But, as we grow, sometimes a glass of milk is a refreshing way to “wash down” that Prime Rib.

I love you, and may we govern ourselves accordingly