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A spiritual comment and prayer to begin the day with Zahid Hussain

Good Morning.

I don鈥檛 call myself a Trekkian, a fan of Star Trek, but I do have a soft spot for the galaxy-roaming American science fiction series. It鈥檚 spawned more children than, well, almost any other series in television history.

It鈥檚 true that I鈥檝e jumped from stone to stone in the heady pool of the Star Trekkian universe, from the original series with Captain Kirk, Bones and of course Spock, to the recent incarnation, Picard. And so, I鈥檝e gleaned a few things along the way.

One of the things I like so much about Star Trek is that there鈥檚 no money it. I don鈥檛 mean the producers and actors don鈥檛 earn a pretty penny through their contribution, I mean that in the fictional universe of Star Trek, money, as a unit of exchange of value plays no part. It鈥檚 a wonderful idea. Gene Roddenberry who created the series wanted a universe where money didn鈥檛 figure, a universe in which as Captain Picard puts it, 鈥淲e鈥檝e grown out of our infancy鈥�. Is such a thing possible? Is it just fantasy?

When I think about people who excel in what they do, who sacrifice so much, I don鈥檛 think do it for the money, they鈥檙e passionate about it.

When I鈥檓 troubled and unsure about doing something, I fall back on this idea that if there was no money in it, would I do such and such a thing and if I would do it anyway then it鈥檚 worth doing.

Let us pray. Lord, sometimes we鈥檙e unsure, confused as to what we should do. Help us to find our passion, to set us on a path where we can pursue a purpose that makes the world a little better and a little brighter for everyone.

Amen.

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