Posts tagged culture
What it means to serve

Helping others from the kindness of ones heart is a slightly strange proposition for people, especially when its coming from stranger from a different country. In the western world we enjoy feeling altruistic. The truth is we have so much, more then enough and we want to give. Well, some of us do. The Nepali people work hard. But they work first for their family, then village, then country. It seems like a good idea to me and yet I find myself helping strangers across the globe rebuild their school. The earthquake changed my retreat company's annual cultural immersion into a seva project. What else could we do? Nepal chose us...

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