Continuing to Serve

In some ways I feel like I've become selfish since I've been back. When I go to classes, I feel like it is all about me. It's about me absorbing the material and then spending a lot of time studying it so I can do better. I know in a lot of ways that it is pretty irrational to feel like I'm selfish because I'm using my time to open up more doors for my future, but coming back from Egypt kind of changes my perspective.

Tonight, I was doing room check and one of the guys on my hall got to talking with me. I've been pretty sure for awhile that he is depressed, but I came to a full realization that he was depressed when he randomly mentioned to me that he hadn't been eating and he gets really tired all of the time. We chatted a little bit more and then I realized that I was 5 minutes late for our RA Meeting.

I ran over to the dorm and got heckled by an authority figure that I just don't really click with, but it was worth it because the guy on my hall is worth infinitely more than the AF being annoyed about my untimeliness.

The meeting got out and I got this idea in my head (God?) that I would give my taco's from "Taco Tuesday" to the guy on my hall. I came back to the dorm and grabbed some fruit, oatmeal, cereal, and some canned food from my puny stash of food and brought it up to him. I think the look of his gratefulness will probably stick with me for awhile. There are some people that just say "thank you" because it is a cultural custom, but he was genuinely thankful. Giving him some food reminded me of the finer things in life- helping people because, for me, that's practical Christianity.