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that we must always win. We are obligated only to keep trying to do the best we can every day. Service is what life is
all about. Service is the rent we pay to be living. It is the very purpose of life and not something we do in our spare
time. An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to
the broader concerns of his community. Everybody can be great... because anybody can serve. You don't have to be the president,
a cabinet minister, a Bishop, a pastor, an evangelist or have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject
and verb agree to serve. You do not have to speak with the best accent to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul
generated by love. That is what our God, our Maker, our Saviour is for and that is what Tumikia Ministry is for. The little
we can do for our community or society we will try and do it. AMEN!!!!!!
We should be ashamed to die until we have won some victory
for humanity. It is worthy noting that those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. Kindness
in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profundity and Kindness in giving creates love.We do not have to
do so much. We just need to be a flea against the wrong things. Enough committed fleas biting strategically can make even
the biggest dog uncomfortable and transform even the whole community. We must not, in trying to think about how we can make
a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often
cannot foresee.
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By Danson Mwaniki
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must have a complete dedication in serving people with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and
consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected
but fought, that honor is to be earned, not bought. If therefore we do have knowledge, it is necessary for
us to let others light their candles in it. Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. This is
because it is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and
feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because
he could do only a little. It is useless trying to become a man of success rather than trying to become a man of value. There
is one thing I am convinced of, that the only ones among us who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how
to serve. It is only a life lived for others which is worthwhile. We will be truly ethical only when we obey the compulsion
to help all life which we are able to assist.
In each day that comes my way, there are few things that I
will always strive for; If I can be of service, if I can glimpse more of the nature and essence of ultimate good, if I can
be inspired to reach wider horizons of thought and action, if I can have peace with myself, this will be a successful day.
Isn’t it wonderful that nobody needs to wait a single moment before starting to improve his community? If I can
stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one life the aching, or cool one pain, or help one fainting
good for nothing drug addict into life again, I shall not live in vain.
In our moments of giving ourselves
to service we will free ourselves from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds
occupied by the needs of others. The first duty of a human being is to assume the right functional relationship to his community.
To find his real job, and do it. In this community which we live today, we should never be satisfied to make ourselves
comfortable knowing that there are thousands of fellow men suffering for the barest necessities of life. We are taught by
our surrounding that man's business on this earth is to look out for himself. That is the ethic of the jungle; the ethic
of the wild animals. Take care of yourself, no matter what may become of your fellow man. But today I say to you, I am my
brother's keeper. I am under a moral obligation to him that is inspired, not by any maudlin sentimentality but by the
higher duty I owe myself.
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What would you think of me if I were capable of seating
myself at a table and gorging myself with food and saw about me the children of my fellow beings starving to death. To care
for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development. We cannot
live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our
actions run as causes and return to us as results.
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