Sacrifice

A new look on sacrifice is in this quote that just came in my daily devotional... I have come to realize that I love doing drama and the things that are giving of yourself- like pouring your heart out into something like teaching and being with SOOO many kids can be super rewarding and doesn't have to be something that you go grudgingly to....

"THAT is what our sacrifice of ourselves shouldbe--"full of life." Not desponding, morbid,morose; not gloomy chilly, forbidding; notlanguid, indolent, inactive; but full of life,and warmth, and energy; cheerful, and makingothers cheerful; gay, and making others gay;happy, and making others happy; contented, andmaking others contented; doing good, and makingothers do good, by our lively vividvitality,--filling every corner of our own soulsand bodies, filling every corner of the circle inwhich we move, with the fresh life-blood of awarm, genial, kindly Christian heart. Doubtlessthis requires a sacrifice; it requires us to giveup our own comfort, our own ease, our ownfiresides, our dear solitude, our own favoriteabsorbing pursuits, our shyness, our reserve, ourpride, our selfishness." ARTHUR P. STANLEY