When I pray for more opportunities to serve, I’m usually thinking about friends and neighbors who might need my help. ⁣

I feel like it’s almost “cheating” to count serving my own family members – isn’t that just something expected?⁣

Of course I’m gonna feed my kids, and change diapers, and clean up spills, and drive everyone to school, and play even when I need a nap…

It’s just what I do!⁣

But I’ve found a beautiful paradigm shift when I allow myself to think of it all as service. ⁣

“Therefore, I would that ye should be steadfast and immovable, always abounding in good works”. (Mosiah 5:15)

It all is good works and service!

And when I think of it that way, I feel so much more LOVE. ⁣

I feel so much more love for my kids and my husband who I’m serving.⁣

And I feel so much more love and gratitude to my Heavenly Father. ⁣

It gives meaning behind the action. ⁣

It makes cleaning up another spill and getting up to play another game of tag purposeful and loving rather than routine and mundane. ⁣

I allow myself to view every little thing I do for someone else as “service”, and I realize I’m not “cheating the system” at all. ⁣

This IS the system. ⁣

Whether you live with one other person, roommates, or a big family – we are created to love the people we are most closely surrounded by. ⁣

And so I continue to love and serve. ⁣

I’m abounding in good works in my home, and so my home is abounding with love. 

Happy Studying!

-Cali Black

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