Are You Pondering What I'm Pondering?

After recently perusing through other people's blogs I have become slightly disappointed in my lack of religious undertones--or overtones, side tones and any kind of tone for that matter.

A perfect example of what one should be doing lies within my increasingly mature younger brother, Kory. Like a pest-control summer sales recruiter I (in cohorts with my sister, Beth) coerced him into beginning his own blogging journey. And what did he do with it? Exactly what our church leaders have encouraged us to do, which is to publicize the Church's teachings and their effects on our lives. Even now it's been impossible for me to not inject some dosage of sarcasm and cynicism into my post; by stark comparison I would invite everyone to view his and others' more edifying comments.

I'm not without some shreds of hope however. I didn't start this post simply to complain. I actually had my own spiritual pensive moment as early as last night. While reading in the scriptures about the Savior's teaching about the last days, he made the allusion to a thief coming in the night. Yes, most of us have heard that before. But the later verses struck me a little harder than normal (though not in a painful sort of way--dang it, there I go again!). Ahem. As I was saying... The Lord proceeded to explain that while one may not know precisely when a thief might arrive, if that same individual knew during which "watch" the thief would come, that is to say, had an approximate idea of when to expect him, he could better protect and preserve his house. In the same way then, while none of us know when those last few days and hours will be, we have been told it is soon and to be on our guard, ready and waiting.

Having read those words, I stretched out on my bed and thought about what that could possibly mean to me, right now at this time. With all of the stress of school combined with other pressing items, I might just catch myself one day with my guard down, unprepared for the Bridegroom's arrival. It's not that homework and having a social life are bad things, but if I let them become bad distractions from a more important responsibility I could become a dreaded "unfaithful servant" so often referred to. My mind then wandered to a more positive plane of reflection as I considered what were the things I could do, starting then, to check myself. Ironically enough, laying down and being idle was probably not the best way to start out...

So I'm opening up the comment box for any of your ideas on the matter. Now, just let me clarify that I'm not looking for you to tell me what you think I should do, but rather what you're doing or will do as it applies to you. Make sense?

P.S. In an unrelated topic, please please please take my poll that you can see to the right. I'm trying to get a feel for how well read my comic blog is (although I have a pretty good idea) so I can know how often to post something new, or whether I should just wrap it up.