Water Your Worth

While most of us are aware of the service industry (serving food, styling hair, providing body therapies and the like), there is an all together difference in living a life of service. Those of us who are followers of Christ know how important it is to the kingdom of heaven to be of service in terms of giving, taking part in missions and other charity related functions, and while all of this is good… how many people continue to live a life of service where you are always thinking about others?

I was one who lived as a service industry person, contributed to giving, volunteering and charities… but… still lived a secret life of sinning trying to fill the need to be wanted and or to numb the realities of this world. Once I hit my all time breaking point, God really stepped in and flipped my world empty, upside down and all over to become who He needs me to be (who I am pleased to be becoming). It has been an interesting journey of complete surrender, peeling away and re-connection. While, I would not say that it is an easy journey, it is definitely a necessary one.

I let it all go in order to get closer to the one who made me and become who I need to be. I let go of my business, my apartment and all my comforts, I even gave away my car at one point of the journey. My ability to care for others not only continued but it became the way that gave me my basics of life. From living as a volunteer at a hostel/hotel to managing a dog daycare and all the homes and farms in between and after. I started to realize that my ability to adapt to environments and provide care is more than just something I did as a child on, it is a way of life. Not many people can manage being around different people, homes and even climates every couple of weeks. Then there is the varying way that people live and want you to do things in their home and property – it is a lot to adapt to and even more to feel at times. I am so grateful for the spiritual tools that I have to help protect along the way and even more grateful for the way that God shows me just a small amount of His world.

I wrote about this a little bit differently on the blog titled, The Help, and just realizing how much my life has changed and how much I am always looking at ways to be of service. I want nothing more than to contribute to the greater good, even if it is just picking up trash at a little park that no one ever goes to or fixing a chair that may not get recognized. I have added quite a lot of skills to my tool box of abilities to do and it is super to teach my child so much so early all the time. “Good enough” is just not an option for me any more. If I see that something needs to be tended to, it doesn’t make sense to me to just leave it or half ass it – it caught my attention because it needs to be done and if I can do it then I will do it all the way and properly. While a lot might not get noticed or repaid for, I know that God sees all, Jesus keeps account and honestly I just want to please Him and give Him all the glory.

So, while it might be super foreign to most that I live a life out of a suitcase caring for other people’s things; I am grateful to have found a way to live a life of service and have our basic needs met along the way.

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