Simple Pleasures: The Joy of Serving

To spend moments thinking about

Someone else,

Someone else’s need,

Someone else’s desire

For something pretty,

Transcends into a call to action,

A willingness to serve,

To cater,

To fulfill a longing of this

Someone else.

A process of putting self aside

To make room, to make a home

For servanthood, for a moment,

Perhaps for a lifetime.

Teaching children of this

Necessity early

Provides a way

For a natural space to develop

Where if it did not happen

They may have hearts consumed

With self,

Instead of selflessness.

To give, to love, to create

For someone, a stranger, a friend,

A way to be a tangible Jesus,

If only for a few moments.

Pictures of my children and their friends serving over Spring break at a local trailer park.

Cleaning the park's playground equipment 

My godson planting with a girl who lives at the park.

Cleaning a tire for the new tire swing going into the community park.

My baby planting veggies with her newfound friend.

Linking up with Dayle for Simple Pleasures today.