I’m wondering…about why it takes a few times before we get it.
Too often we hear such observations with overtones of expectation (if not condescension). But, since from the beginning of our receptivity to life, we are progressively able to embrace it, it might stand that there are reasons for why and how things sink in to us when they do.
For one thing, as we age, it appears that as much as our receptors grow, so do our resistors. There are things that develop in us over time that inform us to not accept everything at face value. That there is positioning of things for illicit gain. That there are those who are seeking to take advantage of something in us. In other words, we learn that we need to be able to resist certain kinds of things.
And this resistor-mechanism can become highly developed, with multiple kinds of layers. We can even detect things like wariness in others (and, in ourselves), not to mention cynicism.
So, perhaps it should not surprise us that not everything makes its way past all of this immediately.
Sometimes, it just takes a little time for the proof-in-the-pudding to be revealed. For us to sort the chaff from the wheat — to be able to more fully receive something.
…for us to get the things that are real and true and good.