DAY 199 --- Who Should I Touch?

As I have thought about it today, what does it mean that "Mankind should be our business?"  Well, as I finished my work the other day, I was sitting there, pondering my place in the eternal scheme of things.  Of course I had no idea what I was thinking but I was wasting time.  I needed a break from my job and started thinking, or perhaps not thinking, but just sitting there.

Then I thought that I had some time.  I remembered that we are told in the scriptures that we shall be judged on how we use our time.  I know that often when we are consumed with any one thing, it is very important to once in a while escape from that work and get your mind elsewhere. That is what I was trying to do, escape.

Then as I thought about making others, mankind my business, I realized that I could either sit there, ponder about "things" and do nothing, or I could in reality make others a priority.   I mean that escape I was needing could just as easily been used to touch someone else as it was used to close my eyes and ponder my place in Eternity.

So today, instead of pondering, doing no good, I decided to text a few people, telling I loved them and I was thinking of them.  One sister in Brigham City sent a text back to me and expressed that she was so impressed that I would think of her and wish her well, especially when she was having a difficult day.  I decided to contact another person, a brother, and tell him I was thinking of him.  He called me and said he appreciated it and we talked for a few minutes. 

I quietly closed my eyes and asked Father who else I should contact, who else needed just a short note of "Hello".  I came up with only one additional name and contacted them, or tried to.  I couldn't get a hold of them, thus that one was not as successful as the others.  However, just trying made me feel good, make me realize what it meant, at least for those few minutes, to be about someone else's business. 

That is what a mission is about, being involved about others needs and wishes.  I need to do more of what I did when I tried to contact another with a smile, a greeting, and a note of cheer.  There is so much I should do, but often I am too self centered and do not look beyond myself into the lives of others, AND when I take the time to enrich someone else, I am enriching my own life.  Giving to someone else certainly brings a fulfillment back to me, and perhaps a better outlook when I am considering my place in Forever.