Even the moments that seem humdrum are full of possibilities. Nothing is really routine. If we really want to do much good, we must also be good.
Conversations and decisions in which we engage, even if they seem small, expose the heart and the mind and their furnishings. Brigham Young once said, "You cannot hide the heart, when the mouth is open" (JD 6:74).
We are not always free to choose just when and how all of life's interactions will occur, we are nevertheless free to choose our responses to these moments.
It is in the light of these overwhelming possibilities, it is with the awe and the circumspection proper to them, that we should conduct all our dealings with one another, all friendships, all loves, all play, all politics. There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilisations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of
a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit. [C. S. Lewis, The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (New York: Macmillan, 1980), p. 19]
It is vital for you and for me, in the words of Jacob, to see things "as they really are" and things "as they really will be" (Jacob 4:13).
All of this made me think about this scripture:
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part, but then shall I know as also I am known. (1 Corinthians 13:12)
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