Branching off of the movie watched previously, there was another thematic significance that I realized-- those pioneers have trekked and toiled to reach the promised land. In a way, aren't we like that too? Aren't we like those pioneers, living like that every day?
Of course, we didn't walk across 20 miles a day, dragging a wooden handcart with very little to eat, but spiritually, we toil equally as hard. Life is one big trek to the promised land. Many will think it too hard and abandon the journey prematurely. This is the wrong way that we exercise our agency, or free will, that God gave us. Now others may get there quicker than others, but the choices we make-- our decisions-- will ultimately destine us to Zion, however you may think it to be.
This theme is universal. It doesn't just apply to going to heaven or literally going to Utah, but it's a theme that we can see in our own lives in whatever aspect it may be. There's a challenge, we overcome it, and we become happy. That's it. As simple as it may be, it's one of the hardest things to understand in a depth where we can apply and explain each process. That in itself is thematic of this trek. Because of its paradoxical nature, I won't delve too much into it.
Food for thought.
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