Thank You for the Opportunity to Serve
I am in the midst of preparing curriculum for a weekend of Children’s Classes at the Green Lake Baha’i Conference at the end of the summer. I am excited about this opportunity to be coordinating classes and planning the lessons and thankful that I was asked to contribute in this way. As part of my responsibilities I was charged with recruiting my teaching team. A friend from NYC whom I had previously taught with and I know to be highly capable and an inspiration to me was a natural choice. She responded to my email with the same sentiment… thanking me for the opportunity to serve the Faith in such a capacity. I noticed that we both felt this way and I suppose it has something to do with being happy to have a way to share in the Faith, and to contribute in a way that not only utilizes our skills, but is something we enjoy as well. Such a refreshing change from feeling that service to the community is a burden, or an obligation. Rather, for us, our service is the way that we become a part of the community.