Just Ask

Just Ask

You have not
because you ask not.
My father,
who passed 20 years ago today,
drummed this into my head.
Just ask!
Not just for my prayers to be answered,
but to learn.
Anytime I did not understand,
he would say,
just ask!
Ask about what you do not understand!
Seek clarification!
Do not make assumptions, ask!
He would paraphrase a scripture
and say
you know not,
because you ask not.
He taught me how to be a scholar.
How to enjoy learning
and want to study.
That is his legacy to me
just ask!
Ask the Ultimate,
ask your friends and family,
ask others who are studying
ask people to help you
ask people to teach you,
ask people to share with you,
but most importantly
be prepared for others to
come to you and
ask.
Ask of others,
he would say,
as you prepare for others
to ask of you.
Just ask!

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Parental Questions

Parental Questions

My parents left this realm
more than 20 years ago
but the questions they asked
my entire life
continue to live with me today.
There were three questions.
The would both ask me
what did you learn today?
Then we would share what we learned.
That was the easiest of the questions
because we could just reflect
on what we learned.
We could talk about subjects,
names, dates, facts and stuff.
Then came the real questions.
My mother would look at me and ask,
what did you ask today?
She wasn’t as concerned about what I learned,
as she was that I had learned to question,
to ask,
to want to know more than
what we were being taught.
She wanted me to learn to question and think,
and so her question was a reminder to ask.
Then was my father
who had his own question.
What did you fail at today?
It was not okay to just do well,
to pass and to succeed.
He wanted us to be willing to fail.
We were to learn to try,
to move beyond the limits
we or others had placed.
We were to be brave enough to try
that we were willing to fail.
I think he got that from his mother
who would tell me that
she who fails to fail,
fails to succeed.
To this day I encourage others to do the same:
learn, ask, and fail

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