I prefer the quizzes on TV where they give you three possible answers and you have to choose which one of the three is correct. I am surprised how many times I get it right not because I know the answer, but because I read the question which contains a clue that links to the answer.

On other occasions I think I haven’t got a clue but when I read the options, I find the answer because I know which two are wrong. Knowing what is wrong, shows me what is right. It is easy to say I don’t know when in fact we do. I’m sure we all know much more than we think we know.

When asked where I was educated, I answer the” University of Life.” I identify with Kipling when he wrote: I keep six honest serving men, they taught me all I knew, their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who.

I first came across them reading a book about the New Testament in the Bible. I think it was the same book that went on to point out that many of those books were written as answers to problems the early church experienced so the challenge when studying is What’s the question?

You could say life is like socks. We have questions and answers matching them up is the hard thing., but then as Jesus said, Seek and you will find! Learning from other’s mistakes is wisdom!