Thought Provoking Thoughts

The start of every new semester in college seems to bring about a lot of thinking and pondering about ones situation in life. Factor in that a new year has also came about recently and you have a variety of thoughts swirling in ones head. Often times when I get into this mood, my thoughts are directed towards the two years in Germany which played such a big part of me realizing the good things in life.

With this in mind, I started to think about a book which was read while on the mission. My mother had sent me the book and it dealt a lot with the spirit and finding truth and the whisperings of God in everyone. One of the best examples of this on the mission was dealing with the first drunk slash disheartened German I had met on the street. He was totally plastered and my German was horrible but I simply remember him stating that he had lost basically everything. As hard as I had tried, he wouldn't listen to our message. Because of this man, I learned what it meant to have love for everyone no matter who they are. Naturally this is something which will probably be worked on my whole life, yet it showed me that everyone has worth so long as the time is spent towards searching for it in that person. To everyone else on the street he was a straggly drunk man with no direction. In the eyes of those with the right mind set, he was simply someone who had lost his family, job and hope in life.

Life is full of "intelligent" men who receive degrees and get trained to become something of "value." Yet the best life lessons come through the most unconventional and unlearned people out there. For an example of this, just observe a little child and their pure innocence about the world and the inquisitive nature they always have about the world. Perhaps we shouldn't look towards the educated for wisdom (to a certain point obviously), but to those who are actively seeking pure unbiased knowledge.

Nature Inspires!

They taught me so much!

Such a good example