Service distinguishes

Today is Wednesday, our Eureka day.  Eureka is a concept that we seek to discover truth using both inductive and deductive reasoning...scientific and mathematical.  I like to seek for evidences of truth of the principle we are studying on this day, so today this is what I used:

First we discussed the two great commandments and how all other commandments are "hinged" on them:
-to love God
-to love our neighbors as ourselves
We used reasoning to show how the 10 commandments are simply ways to honor those two.

Then I brought into the discussion the section in Matthew 25 where the King is separating the righteous and the unrighteous...simply based upon the acts of service they rendered to their fellow man.  I had the younger group act out each act of service as I read it and you could see the emotion on their faces change as they acted out serving verses withholding their services. (This is a great video about this that we had watched before but I did end up bringing it into the "older" group...The Old Shoemaker by Tolstoy.)

I then showed the following two clips:

"Love thy Neighbor"

The first was a witness of the truthfulness of the joy that comes from giving selfless service dn the second an example of it.

It is truly service that will distinguish our righteousness, our willingness to love and obey God.  As leaders, like in "The Old Shoemaker," we must keep our eyes lifted for opportunities to serve, opportunities to visit with our Savior, even as we work.  The opportunities will not always come knocking at our door.

*Sorry if this is a duplicate posting for some of you...it fits both with "my thoughts" (Lazarus blog) and "homeschooling ideas" (Homeschooling is for the Bees blog).