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Grateful I Don’t Know It All
Posted on Sunday, November 28th, 2021 | Filed under Blog Post, Culture, Devotional | Tagged: Audrey Frank, expertise, gratitude, how to be an expert, humility, interdependence and community, Job 12:13, know-it-alls, knowledge, learning from God, learning in community, lifelong learning, wisdom

But true wisdom and power are found in God; counsel and understanding are his. Job 12:13 Somewhere along the line, I absorbed an untruth: We must be experts in whatever we are expert in. I still remember the paralysis I experienced during my Clinical Fellowship Year when a patient asked a question for which I didn’t know the answer. I thought to be a good clinician I should know the answers to all my patients’ questions. I was supposed to be an expert now. Wasn’t that why I took that awful exam to become certified? Turns out, with my Certification of Clinical Competence, I should have received another certification: Certification of Lifelong Learning. Learning is the secret to many things, gratitude being merely one. I learned… Read More