Service Oriented

Hello, all. I spent the greatest portion of the day out running errands, so I am just getting back to you. By now, I am sure that you BYDWP.  For today, I thought that I would do a poem based upon my motto in life, Doing What I Can, While I Can (i.e., helping where I see a need in any way possible).

Service Oriented

I spent the better part of 

My life serving people

Fifteen years in Special Education

Fifteen years in the regular classroom

Trying to educate the youth of our nation

Beginning with the lessons in a book

And ending in showing them all

That they could bloom

As aromatic flowers in this garden

In which we all have been planted

By becoming successful in all they undertook.

Coupled with working as a teacher

I worked forty-two years as a help-meet

To my husband, who is a preacher.

No matter what congregation we went to

We tried to teach and show love so that the glory

Of God always came shining through.

Now, I am working full-time on my writing

Trying to tell the world that serving

My God is not boring, but exciting.

I have built a legacy and am

Writing a good bit of it down

So that you can read my story and hear my voice

As I try to pen words that are inspiring and sound.

Being service oriented is what the Lord desires

Because He told us so in John 13:15-17

And trying to lead a life that is pleasing to Him

We serve mankind by not letting

Our Christian light grow dim.

Doing What I Can, While I Can,

Alma Jones

1. What do you think that the underlying message of this poem is?

2. What does service-oriented mean in this poem?

Aside - I met an amazing group of ladies on yesterday through a tee shirt post. The post concerned ladies named, "Alma."  There were over 700 on that post. I told them that I did not know that the sisterhood of "Alma" had that many members. We had a good laugh about that.