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What Service Looks Like

What Service Looks Like

Afterward, they rush home. She fixes dinner, with the kids helping out. Her husband comes home from his long commute. He's worn out, and he's worried about layoffs. He needs a break, she thinks, and so do I.

On Saturday, she stuffs envelopes for a pro-life rally, drops the kids off at her mother's, and finally she and her husband have an afternoon to themselves. When they pick up the kids that evening, her mother mentions her appointment with a specialist the next week. Her mom looks worried. I'd better take off work and go with her, she thinks.

Sunday morning she has coffee duty, so she leaves early for church. During the sermon about the love of Christ, she is filled with a desire to serve the Lord. But we are already so busy. Besides, how does God want me to serve Him?

She has been serving Him. What she does for her kids, her husband, her mother, her church, her community and even her customers at the diner is serving her neighbor.

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