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Changing my career without changing my job
Originally appeared on spirituality.com
I joined the police force because I thought it would offer me opportunities to do good in our community. And it did. But as I prayed about a family problem one afternoon, I saw that what I'd done so far was only superficially helpful. I’d attended to people’s problems, to a degree. But now it was time to start healing society's challenges at their source.
To reduce crime and violence, I believed, a radical change of thought was needed. Enforcing the laws of the land was helpful. But I realized that no matter how good a policeman I was—even if I were promoted to Commissioner—that, by itself, would still not heal anything.
What was really needed was for human nature to be made better. From my study of the Bible, I knew this could be achieved by spiritualizing thought. Poverty, deprivation, violence—whatever was wrong in the community or the world—could be healed through the understanding of God’s law, which Jesus gave humanity.
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