#48 of 365~How Can I Serve?

For the last 10 years, Nick and I have learned to served alongside each other overseas and here at home.  We've been encouraged to grow in our thought process of serving, expand all that we know of love, and that sometimes getting your hands dirty-isn't enough.  My heart has been broken a million times, I long for places and times that have already been, and I am tortured by the faces of those I've felt I've "left behind." For awhile now, I feel like I've had to take a break-been told to take a break and yet, my hands itch to get dirty, my eyes long to see new faces, and my heart beats to serve again.  

I have prayed many nights asking how to do this again without getting in over my head or giving myself so much to the "cause" that I forget my family, my friends, and myself.  Prayers range between crying in agony over the pain I feel for those directly down the street or across oceans.  Prayers always end with, "Papa-God, how can I serve them?"  His answer came in a way I would never have imagined. 

As everyone knows, I'm a Preschool teacher for a private school.  They recently asked if I would consider becoming the "Service Learning Coordinator" on top of teaching Preschool.  This would mean that I would work with a committee of individuals to create a program for all of our students ages 3 years old through twelfth grade and manage local and global service learning projects.  My heart leaped within my chest and I felt this weight lift from the weary shoulders it was placed upon.  Not only do I get to work here side by side with my students in our hometown-Omaha-but, I get to also work with overseas partners in creating a better global community of service learning, respect, and creativity. 

 THIS is how I can serve!