Christian virtues · The purpose
Service
Definition
Service is strength spent for someone who cannot repay it, and who may never know you did it.
The lesson
If the act needs an audience, it is not service yet. It may still be useful. It is not this virtue. The warrior’s strength gets its meaning here: it leaves a person or a place stronger and does not send an invoice.
Choose a small, real need in your house, your work, or your neighborhood. Meet it today. Do not mention it.
Meet one unpaid need. Tell no one.
A large promise to serve, offered in place of the small act that was already in your power.