Service is knowing what you have to
offer, and then offering it freely. It is not about parades and fancy attire,
it is not about social status or recognition.
Service is taking all that you have,
and all that you are, even when - especially
when - you don't want to or feel you can't - and giving it for the benefit of
others.
Service
is not a demonstration of giving a portion of what we have, service is living a
radical generosity whereby everything we do speaks to what is living within us.
Service
is throughout today's texts; from Ruth giving her child to her mother-in-law to
raise as her own; to Paul reminding the Hebrews that Christ offered himself to
bear our sins; to Jesus' teaching of the poor widow giving all she had.
Service
is not something to be remembered just one day, but to be lived all the time.
It is not something that only happens in a uniform, it is something that we are
called to wear in our hearts. it is not something that we do, it is an
expression of who we are.
For
all who serve for peace and justice, for all who serve to bring about the
kingdom, for all who serve for the love of God - may we serve them by our
remembrance.
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