Over the last couple of days, my coworkers and I have been, among other things, going over inventories of every single room in every single building across the entire dorm complex. It's amazing to me just how many things we need to check in each room. From the door sign to the frame to the evacuation sign to the closets to the desks to the sink to the beds to the fire alarm and the other forty details in between, there is no end to the attention to detail we need to maintain.
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| Here's my partner-in-crime ... I mean, in, in ... good? |
The process naturally reminded me of a spiritual analogy!
See, when it comes to preparing ourselves spiritually, it takes a lot. Even going so far as to read your scriptures every day and go to church every week isn't enough. You have to make sure to keep all the commandments, you have to try and become as Christlike as possible, you have to maintain good, loving relationships with the people around you, and then your checklist starts reaching a comparably lengthy list to the ones I've been working with, and I've only barely scratched the surface of everything we need to remember.
But, in the end, that's OK. In reviewing the checklists from last year, some problems were never fixed. Other problems were left off the lists altogether, likely an accidental oversight on the part of a CA from last year.
In the same way, we aren't expected to be spiritually perfect at the end of every day. Instead, we are expected to try.
No matter how many CAs fill out inventory sheets in years to come, I doubt those rooms will achieve the same level of spotlessness they had when they were first built. However, whenever custodial or maintenance follows up after us and fixes up what we've marked, the rooms will be just a little closer to where they were before.
Just as we will be when we review our own spiritual inventories and catch the things we missed.
Love you guys! See you tomorrow!
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