Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it. These words, spoken by George Santayana, have always reverberated in my head over the years. I was always drawn to the lessons people had learned: Newton, being rudely awaken from a perfectly good nap, reviewed that brief history and discovered God’s perfect law on gravity. Countries, nations and empires have left letters, books, whole Ages from which mankind to learn. The Bible is a great piece of history, telling peoples’ stories on both sides of the ledger. Examples of what to do, and what NOT to do. This never quite equated to a career in my head, but just a hobby of sorts while I searched for meaning in every other corner.
They say that happiness and success are elusive by nature, and, as is usual for us, the things we search for the hardest tend to be right under our nose! So, very recently, in fact, I heard clearly God’s call to me to feed more sheep by learning history, both worldly and Biblically. I am going back to school to become a history professor and continue into anthropology. I want to help fuse the Bible with the history books so that I might combine my career and passion with my faith to open the eyes of the blind sheep wandering further away from what truly is history. His story. Much like the Bible, the books ARE written physically by man, but they don’t realize the Holy inspiration behind the screenplay. Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.
I never realized, though, that the voice in my head saying those words was not George, but Jesus.
February 6, 2026
