For the second time since 2024, the area's MLK Day of Service has been cancelled due to dangerous cold temperatures.
While I'm certain that's disappointing to everyone involved - organiations, recipient agencies, and volunteers - if you think about it, even the cancellation is service - service to participants to keep them safe.
While we may often think of service as engaging in a service project or other activity, service comes in so many forms, as I discovered during the months in 2020 when I was writing this book.
Service can include:
* reaching out to someone lonely or staying away from someone who doesn't wish to see you
* providing a kind word, a prayer, and/or a listening word to someone who desperately needs them.
* a simple smile and "thank you" to anyone who's provided service to you, yes, even the bank teller person checking out your groceries.
* taking the time during a busy day to walk around the block to move your body and clear your mind on a busy day.
* going to bed early to get enough rest or waking up early to reserve time for yourself.
* graciously receiving someone else's service to you
Each day is filled with unrecogized opportunities for service.
While a large event like MLK Day of Service provides the means to serve many people on a wide scale, the necessity of canceling such an event doesn't erase the fact that we and they benefit from our acts of service.
Let today be the start of a new pattern of service in your life.
Happy Monday!
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