Spiritual Sunday- Your Privilege

Back home, my parents have a lot of VHS tapes. I grew up in the late 90’s early 00’s when VHS was common place and everyone, particularly Disney, had a big push to sell off as many of these tapes as they could.

One tape we had was Disney’s ‘The Legend of Sleepy Hollow’. The story was named that because the location of the story was a little town called Sleepy Hollow. It’s a quiet town where every day was like the one before. The little town was full of little people who lived their lives without much happening to them, that is until a new school teacher by the name of Ichabod Crane showed up. In any case, these people lived day in and day out without really living so much as going through the motions.

This is a common thread in literature and nearly all of fiction. Business goes on as usual and then an opportunity pops up and the hero makes the most of it, yet for every Frodo there is a village full of hobbits that don’t do anything with their lives.

Several years ago, President Dieter F Uchtdorf of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints gave an analogy of a man who saved his entire life to take a cruise ship around the world. When the man got on the boat, he unloaded a suitcase full of canned beans and saltine crackers. He wanted to take part in all of the festivities and walk across the countries he dreamed of so often but stayed inside his cabin trying to spend as little as possible. At the end of the trip, the man finds out that everything on the ship was included in the price of admission. The man found out, too late unfortunately, that he was living well beneath his privilege.

So, we have been given this one shot at life. Are we living beneath our privilege? Are we standing by while life happens or are we going to take an active part in the production?

Thanks for joining me today. I hope you all have a wonderful week ahead of you and remember to always be your best self.