ohmyfreakingobama:

Agra Dog by lylevincent on Flickr.

I think I’m learning more about what it’s like to truly serve. No glory. At least not for me.  I do the jobs that others turn up their noses at, and while everyone else seems to advance, I stay behind.  I don’t know why that is but it’s a good lesson.  Wherever I’ve worked I’ve always had the goal (and often succeeded) at being the best at what I do, here-I’m not the best.  I receive no praise or recognition.  There’s no way to really “move up” in my job and the success and recognition driven part of me finds that discouraging and even sometimes embarrassing.  But I think I am supposed to learn to just “be”.  To do what is required, to do what no one else wants to do, to be faithful. To lay my ego down.  To find joy in true service without recognition for how self sacrificing I am.  There’s really so much to be grateful for.  And I worry way too much about what others say when really, no one is saying anything at all.  I’m hoping that in some small way, You shine through and that people might occasionally wonder why that girl who is placed on course service every day is so cheerful about it.

Also pray for me because it’s going to rain alot in the next few days and it makes me a) emotional and melancholy because I’m a sensitive soul and b) it makes me cold and wet

God answers big and little prayers and we don’t need to worry about the results because they are going to come.  He is faithful, Matt 6.25.

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