Called to Serve: Embracing Selflessness in Everyday Life

There is a line in the Gospel reading for this coming Sunday where Jesus says, He, the Son of Man, came not to be served but to serve and to give his life... This is a very humbling thing to come face to face with. If Jesus came to serve, what should I do? Is there really any choice but to focus on serving others? I was trying to make a list of ways to serve. These are a few that I came up with. To feed, to heal, to comfort, to sit quietly with a person who is struggling, to clothe, to cry with, to laugh with, to pray with, to listen, to help and maybe in summary, to love. We need to move away from the concept of me first. We need to learn that it is giving ourselves away that we get everything in return. Along the way, PN