your local community? Do you want to get involved in a project bigger
than yourself? Do you need some hours to fulfill a community service
requirement? If so, I have got the thing for you: serve. It sounds
elusive and ambiguous, but it does not have to.
To serve others is a wonderful thing. There are a few compelling reasons
to spend your time in this valuable way. First, taking time to serve
gets you ou...
Are your days dragging on? Are you looking for a way to contribute to
your local community? Do you want to get involved in a project bigger
than yourself? Do you need some hours to fulfill a community service
requirement? If so, I have got the thing for you: serve. It sounds
elusive and ambiguous, but it does not have to.
To serve others is a wonderful thing. There are a few compelling reasons
to spend your time in this valuable way. First, taking time to serve
gets you outside of your own life, your own cares, and your own needs
and forces you to focus on the needs and cares of others. Most of the
people in the world and even in your hometown have different issues,
problems, and concerns than you do. And this is a great thing. By taking
the time to serve people different than yourself, your life cannot
remain focused only on you for very long. You will find that you begin
to think of others' needs along with your own.
Taking the time to serve others can also be fun. Are you interested in
sewing? Why not start a sewing group at a local nursing home. Spend a
couple of hours each week teaching or reteaching elderly women a skill
that will help them connect with one another and pass lonely days with
fun. Or perhaps you love kids. Take a few hours each week to serve as a
recess monitor at a local elementary school. The teachers will love the
break and you will love getting to know the young children. Maybe you
are great at fixing cars. Consider taking that rare skill and using it
to serve single mothers or elderly people who are not able to fix their
own vehicles. What a blessing you can be and what a fun time you can
have when you serve others.
Serving is great because it is so easy. You do not have to commit forty
hours each week to serve in many organizations. Instead, set aside just
a couple of hours each week to serve in an area that you love. You can
even start to serve by doing something as easy as raking your neighbor's
lawn or by offering to pick up your neighbor's groceries when you pick
up your own. What could be easier than that? Or serve your friends by
offering to cook them a meal or pick up their children from school. Are
you passionate about women having healthy pregnancies? Volunteer to
serve one morning a week at a local pregnancy care center.
A final reason to serve is because it is important to the health and
life of all communities. Every community would benefit greatly if all of
its people were generous with their time and energies. Think of all the
great things that could happen in your town. Amazing things can happen
when people put their passions and their skills together. Needs are met
and problems are solved when people begin to serve one another.
Take some time right now to consider an area or two that you can serve
in. Think of ways to include the cares of others in your day. Make sure
that you choose to serve in an area that is fun for you. You will be
much more likely to do something well if you are having fun at it.
Serving others can easily be incorporated into even the busiest of
schedules, and your community will thank you for it.
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