Service as a Lifestyle

8.22.15

Today:

• Ngaramtoni Primary School
• Weed the 2^nd corn field
• Play some games with the kids
•  Convoy of Hope office
•  Finish the Demonstration Garden
• Smile and feel accomplished! =)

I woke up today and I was ready to serve! I was ready to with chant “Tondoke!” with the Ngaramtoni kids while we weeded. I was ready to sweat and get my hands dirty.  I was ready to plan out and build the irrigation system. This is because I really came to experience the joy comes from serving.

Perforating the hose for the irrigation system with Robyn

I really agree with what Celebration of Discipline had to say about service: “It will slip in upon us unawares. Though we do not sense its presence, we are aware of a fresh zest and exhilaration with living. We wonder at the new sense of confidence that marks our activities” (Foster, 131). I didn’t really pick and choose what I wanted to do. I realized that I began to focus on who was benefiting from the work I was doing. When we were weeding the

fields, I kept thinking that this would lessen the work for the kids who already work so hard. When we were working on the Demonstration Garden, I thought about all the women who would learn so much from the projects we had started up for them. I’m sure that many of us on this trip began to think this way because we all just jumped in whenever there was a need. We really worked together in order to accomplish these tasks.

I really look forward to building on this. I look forward to serving other just because I want to make others smile or because I want to fill a need. This is the type of person I want to be.