Conversion to What?

We've been talking a lot about conversion at church lately. The discussions have all been around how we have to have a testimony first and then act on it, and over our lifetime, we'll become converted.

Well, today in Sacrament Meeting, one of the speakers talked on conversion, the other talked about the love of God. So naturally, I put them together. We are converted to love. I feel that that is the purpose anyway. We are converted to people who naturally put others first - who think of them and truly want and then do help each other.

In my life right now, I am a little separated from all of my friends - except my family. It has been interesting to watch what happened with my friendships. Because not only did they stop reaching out to me, I stopped reaching out to them. I've observed this before, as have many before me. What was new to me this time was the idea that their lives literally go on just fine without me. The way I realized this was that my dad prayed for my brother on a mission, that he would have a good day and work hard. I just hadn't thought about it that way.

It's kind of like the child development principle of object permanence. At a certain age they understand the principle that if you hide a toy under a blanked, for example, it is still there. Well - I guess I just struggle to comprehend how everyone has individual lives, going on all the time independent of each others.

God wants us to remember Him and each other. We need to be converted to trusting and loving Him and remembering and serving each other. There is a lot of help in place to get us there, we just have to trust in His system and keep moving forward, and we'll get there.