Friends,
It’s a great week to surrender a personal freedom and serve someone else with that time. Let’s do it with a smile on our face for even more impact!
Come to serve and you will never be disappointed.
If we always keep people at arm’s length, conduct our work only in the confines of sterile environments, and seldom go out to work in the dirty trenches serving one another……. we will miss out on the best of what can stir the depths of our hearts. … This is precisely the reason why some who come to serve our youth grow dissatisfied, lose heart and become in a sense like curators studying and collecting souls— instead of being shepherds living with ‘the smell of the sheep.’ It’s dirty work helping kids. This is what Pope Francis was talking about when he said that shepherds should smell like their sheep. What do you smell like?
A couple video clips on the power of serving others:
