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Why can’t the Church just have an anonymous suggestion box where members can put in their pet peeves and what is bugging them. I remember at an old job I suggested something like that, and one of my co-workers remarked, “You don’t want to get fired over something stupid.” Then I quipped back, “But what if we had an anonymous way of doing it.” I know when I don’t really feeling like doing something, I say I’m just a volunteer, it’s not like you can fire me or anything. I let may anger come out in sacrament meeting right before the meeting started. I started to think how ugly our meeting house is on the inside. I told my kids that where I used to go to church had beautiful stained glass windows where the natural glass would illuminate the chapel, and how drab it was to have plain old white walls that looked old. My son said that the woodwork behind the stand had a spot that wasn’t painted properly. I agreed with him and said that I had never noticed it before.
Don’t get me wrong that wasn’t the importance of my critique. The Church has these time changes that come every new year, and you think sometimes I wish I only had to share my building with one other ward so it is either 9am or 11am, none of this 1PM BS. I’m a morning person and my afternoons are for napping. Now to be early at church I have to arrive beyond 20 minutes to get my favorite bench. I hear the high councilman who I don’t know from Adam stating how the Stake needs to do better at missionary work and I’m thinking in the back of my mind, It’s the poor people that are barely scraping by that are the missionaries; the poor people who have very little time to do it and the rich people in the ward who have time to go to sporting events, or whatever don’t do the missionary work. Houston, we have a problem, call the people with the means and the time to the damn callings, and leave the poor people alone to come to church if we feel it’s important. I was squirming inside ready to explode; than I thought why can’t we just have an anonymous Suggestion Box, wouldn’t that fix the ills of the ward. I’m sorry, revelation doesn’t need to be called upon to fix the obvious.
I think that’s a great idea . . . as long as everyone understands it’s a suggestion box and not a demand box. I remember a work suggestion box and responses that were published in the company newsletter. I remember because the responses all had a tone of, “you whinning ingrates should already be happy with what is given.” I understand that there are often valid reasons why different suggestions can’t be implemented right away or at all, but some suggestions are really good and can make positive imporvements now. I wonder if this is something that a local leader could implement? The danger would be rude or personal stuff. God is God. He knows everything, even what we are going to suggest. And God directs the prophet. So what would be the point? (Or I am guessing the thought process, goes….)
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