Lessons of Love

Attending BYU,  a private church university I have the opportunity to take classes that are duel in nature. That is they have components of both secular academic principles and facts and spiritual matters. Some of you may not think that that is very cool, but I absolutely love it. Being a member of the LDS church I love taking classes that help me grow academically and spiritually. This semester I have had some wonderful classes as well as some I'm not really a fan of. My sociology class falls in the middle. I have learned some really interesting things, but it's well.. it's just an interesting class. Today however on the last day of class I received a great lesson in love and charity that I did not expect to get. The class is focused on social inequality and our professor asked us to bring in a scripture about inequality and share it with the class. There are 8 or 9 of us in the class so we have group discussion a lot. I didn't think a whole lot about it, but brought my scripture to class with me and the intent to come up with some commentary on it that would give me the participation points I needed for the day. To my surprise, we had one of the most wonderful discussions about the gospel and examples of dissolving inequality in the scriptures. Some great scriptures were shared that solidified everything we had talked about in class throughout the semester and I had to chastise myself for not seeing the deeper meaning in what I had been learning. It reminded me in the midst of crazy classes and the starting of finals just how much I really love being at this university. I am so grateful that we can say prayers in our classes and that we can read our scriptures and discuss how spiritual things apply to our secular learning. It is a wonderful thing and I am so incredibly thankful that I have the opportunity to attend BYU.