Why Insight Doesn’t Hold

Have you ever noticed how clear things can become?

You suddenly understand and you see the pattern. You know exactly what matters.

And then life resumes.

Not because the insight wasn't real, but because dishes need washing, meetings happen, dogs need walking, plumbing leaks.

Life continues.

People often assume they have lost the insight.

I wonder if something else is true.

Perhaps insight is immediate.

But assimilation is seasonal.

Perhaps understanding isn't a lightning strike.

Perhaps it is a friendship.

Something that deepens over time.

Something revisited, something remembered.

Perhaps wisdom isn't having a powerful moment.

Perhaps wisdom is returning to that moment often enough that it slowly becomes part of you.

Not because you forced it, but because life had time to make room for it.

Understanding may happen in an instant.

Living it takes seasons.

And perhaps that's perfectly ordinary.

Which is another way of saying:

Nothing has gone wrong.