Sometimes I wonder if my friends who occasionally look at this blog or if my friends on facebook ever think, "Sheesh, Marisa is always preachin' Jesus." Well, once someone said something like this to me, "I never feel eager to share my beliefs, because I think whatever you believe is what you believe." Kind of like "live and let live" only "think and let think." And I agree, of course. Part of Mormon theology is the idea of free agency--a God-given right to freedom of choice. We believe God is not a god of coercion. God does not force us into anything. But I also believe truth is truth. And also truth is truth whether it is believed or not. And if you believed that there were a universal Truth, and consequently for everyone, and it would heal the world by living it, then, I'm sure, you would feel a desire to share it too.
To my fellow members of the church, I found this to be very comforting and reassuring:
