“Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., once said: ‘Everyone can be great because everyone can serve. You don’t have to have a college education to serve. You don’t even have to make your subjects and verbs agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace.’
When you enter the path of service, know that large numbers of spiritual people have gone before you. Volunteers are helping in almost every sector of our societies – soup kitchens, hospitals, nursing homes, schools, community gardens, thrift shops, and countless other settings.
The call of service is not always easy or uplifting. There are hazards that come with the territory, such as misunderstanding, exhaustion, and burnout. Nonetheless, young and old continue to be buoyed by their experience of community while providing service and by the personal fulfillment of doing something worthwhile for others.
In their classic How Can I Help? Stories and Reflections on Service, Ram Dass and Paul Gorman conclude: ‘Service is an endless series of questions, puzzling and insistent. It not only raises questions, it helps to answer them. Service is a curriculum.’ ”
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