For the Good of All

I'm starting to dislike my job a little just because it makes me feel so guilty.  I am a very hyper-active person...I love to be able to get things done.  I love to be successful and productive and creative.  When I come to work, I turn on some monitors, watch the microphones, and sit.  Honestly, if the Distance Education Department could just trust all their students coming in, the people coming to class could easily do what I do, and it would be self-sufficient.  I really enjoy doing it, but I'm so uncomfortable with how much I am paid to do nothing!  If they paid me a dollar for every button I press, I would get paid less than I do right now.  It's ridiculous.  I feel like for $120 a week, though it is slim for a college student like me, I should be trying to invent some new computer program or something!  I'll keep doing it...but I think my guilt will only build.

Today I was able to go to a luncheon with a bunch of groups of many different faiths.  We came together to discuss our religions in a friendly, non-proselytizing way.  It was so fun!  I think that especially here in Utah, but I have seen it elsewhere, it is so easy to end up segregating yourself from other religions as a Mormon.  Not out of judgment or stereotypes or "high-and-mighty" reasons, but just because we gather together so much as congregations, sometimes we forget there are other people out there!

I found the insights I gained from what a Jewish man and and Catholic woman knew to be quite inspiring.  Sure, we believe The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to be the perfect vehicle for learning and living the pure Gospel of Jesus Christ...but that doesn't mean that any of us are perfect drivers!  No Mormon knows everything, nor is everything that we know correct.  I honestly believe that, no matter what happens, anybody on this earth--no matter where they are or how they were brought up--who honestly seeks for truth will find it.  All of us.  It may have to wait until we are dead, but we will all find out what is really true in the end.  Isn't that exciting?

That's what I love about life.  It doesn't matter who or when or where or what we are brought up in, every person on this earth will have their own scenario in which they can prove themselves in their desires for virtue and justice.  Despite our brains' desperate drive to do so...we don't need to place others in boxes of judgment or personality due to religion or circumstances.  When it comes down to it, in our uniqueness, we are all the same, with the same vital privileges.

That is beautiful to me.