Qualified For The Work

"A life that is planned is a closed life.
It can be endured, perhaps.
It cannot be lived."
~The Inn of the Sixth Happiness, 1958, starring Ingrid Bergman.

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One of the best elements to this amazing movie is the reference to qualification. Ingrid Bergman plays Gladys Aylwood, a woman who wishes to serve a mission in China in the early twentieth century only to to be told that she is "under qualified" for the work. Undeterred for long, she saves up enough money to buy passage to China on her own, where she proceeds to make a difference in a way no one could have imagined.

Proof that one doesn't not need to be "qualified" in the eyes of man to do what needs to be done. If we went only by the view of others, how many great discoveries in this life would have actually occurred? It would be a sad world indeed had the Great Thinkers been turned away from their ideals because they were not "qualified" of men.

"For man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart" (1 Samuel 16:7) "and faith, hope, charity and love, with an eye single to the glory of God, qualify him for the work." (D&C 4:5) So what have we to be worried about?

The best part of the movie is the knowledge that it based on real life events. It's not 'just a movie.' It really happened, and she really did what she did regardless of credentials.

What's stopping us from achieving the same?