The sermon last night at church got me thinking. It was about being a servant and the major thing I got out of it was being a servant that doesn't serve for the recognition but because you are serving the Lord. I remember when we first got into children's ministry. It was so easy to serve and just enjoy serving. It didn't matter that we weren't on stage with a microphone, it didn't matter that the kids didn't know who we were, it didn't matter that none of the other volunteers or parents knew who we were; it just mattered that we were serving in the local church and honoring where we knew God wanted us to be. After a while that changed. Suddenly everyone knew who we were and it was hard to not want recognition for what we were doing. We were constantly doing everything we could to serve the ministry. Our kids were convinced that we lived at the church. I know for me it stopped being about serving and more about being busy. People started to thank us for d...