Interfaith Relationships

        I've hung my head and thought as long as I'm in Utah, I will be forever alone far too many times.  
        Today, one of my good friends was talking to me about her homecoming date -- how he was really sweet, danced with her, called her a princess.  I said that I'd like to meet a nice guy like that, and the next thing I knew, she was talking about "the church", seminary, the New Testament to me.  Which sort of makes sense.  I've been close enough to her that I've attended several church events with her, and I even got a Book of Mormon from her...
        But I've never been close to converting. 
        I've thought about it a lot -- sometimes more than is personally beneficial.  How much easier would it be, socially, if I was LDS?  I'd be friends with most of my neighbors.  I could go to the region dances that everyone's been talking about since ninth grade.  I'd be able to date almost any boy at my school and not have his family making dinner-time conversation about converting me. 
        But when it gets right down to it, I don't want to be LDS.  I can enjoy and agree with some aspects of it, but I don't agree with everything.  I only agree with the aspects that line up with my current religious beliefs, and, honestly, that's the way it will always be, because it's the way I want it to be.  I connect on that basic level, which is, perhaps, why I'm so susceptible to considering religious contrasts.  How different am I, really? 
        Just as I would not ask for Mormons to convert to Unitarian Universalism if it didn't serve them, so I wish I was not constantly, constantly asked to consider becoming LDS.  But it's a part of their religion -- to ask, to ask again, and to ask one more time.  To marry within the church.  To raise a family according the values spoken to them through Christ and their prophets.  I'm so happy for all of my friends who have already found their spiritual place, and perhaps even a spiritual partner. 
        Now I just wait to find my place.  I think it will probably be a space in between the rocks, in the spaces that fill up with light. 
        I wait and look for someone who I can agree with, even if I'm not the "same".  Be them UU, Mormon, Catholic, Presbyterian, Jewish, Muslim, Wiccan, atheist, undecided... I'm a nice person seeking a nice person.  Now I just need to find someone who agrees that, despite challenges, it can be that simple, if only for a moment.