Day 33 Act Right

Question of the day:Which of the six characteristics of real servants offers the greatest challenges to me?

Before I can answer this question, I suppose I have to explain what these 6 characteristics are. They are as follows:
1. Make yourself available
2. Pay attention to the needs of others
3. Do the best with what you have
4. Do every task with equal dedication
5. Be faithful
6. Maintain a low profile

I just want to quickly address number 6. I can not stand when people do something for others and feel the need to boast about it. It just shows that they are not trying to help others but help themselves to the praise of others and recognition. Stop it! Do things for people because you care not because you want an award. Its one thing to tell other people what you do to get them to join you, its another to boast about how much you donated to a cause.

Enough with my rant, now to answer the question, my biggest challenge is doing the best with what I have. If I can't do something well, I don't feel like doing it at all. It frustrates me, but I try anyway and I suppose that's all that matters. I can't be good at everything, so even though I 've never done something before, if it'll help someone else I'll try it. Just hope it isn't a hot mess.

Day 32

Short and simple: I need to explore my talents and gifts. I 'm going to take some classes to figure out what I like and what I'm interested in. Once I do that, I can know what I can do in church. Period.

Day 31 Gifted

Once again we go into the redundancy of this book. Its time I tap into my gifts and talents and figure out how to use them for good....I'll let you know when I figure it out.

Day 30 Gifts and Heart

Ten days left, hopefully I can keep up the momentum. I know that this weekend is a loss but after that I can keep posting. Day 30 discusses gifts and heart. God gave everyone different gifts to be used and not wasted. He also gives us interests. The question is what am I interested in and good at? I have many interests but i don't see how any of them can be of any use. I like to travel but there is no way I'm going to be a missionary. Lying on the beach can't help save anyone and neither can reading a book. These are my interests. On the other hand I have always had an interests in politics, current events, doing some kind of good for my community. Maybe I'll run for office......
Back to reality, my first step is figuring out what else I like to do. I've decided to do more volunteer work. For at least a month I will volunteer one day every week at a local soup kitchen. If I'm bored, I'll try something like building houses for Habitat.... who knows....

Day 29

Its been quite some time since my last entry, but I'm back. The holidays have caused major delays in writing. Anyway, back to Day 29. It asks what is keeping me from service. The answer is simple. I have NO IDEA, what I'm supposed to be doing. I've tried different things, but in the end I get bored. The time has come to take some time to evaluate what I like to do and how I can use that in service. Maybe I'll do something at a soup kitchen or write a newsletter for a church. I don't know yet. If anyone has ideas (even though no one is even reading) let me know.