Serve one another humbly in love

This weekend, I am going offline for a few days. It is something I have wanted to do for a while and honestly have thought about doing it for Lent. Funny thing is, I am an interactive marketing manager and I work online A LOT during the day. So much so, I barely turn on the computer when I come home. Home has become that place where I can relax and not feel obligated to increase my Klout score by tweeting like a psycho. I don’t have to read every single status update from the past 16 hours. Instead, I come home and talk with my children about their day and they ask me about mine.

I was blessed to have an abundance of new ideas running through my head the past few weeks and I have not dedicated the time I should to cultivating them. Instead, I have been caught up in allowing life to pass me by. I don’t want to do that anymore. I realize each day I am allowed to live is an amazing gift. One I do not want to take for granted.

I have been working with a theme this past month. It was empathy. Something I have not shown a lot of to myself and something I desire to show more towards others. As February starts, the word above, serve, has a certain quality to it. I love that it relates to such a beautiful scripture, Galatians 5:13 (NIV):

You, my brothers and sisters, were called to be free. But do not use your freedom to indulge the flesh; rather, serve one another humbly in love.

So, for the month of February, I will look for opportunities to serve others in love. May God give me the grace to do so willingly and with a cheerful heart.