The Magic of Service

Today Hannah had a lesson on Service. She came home with little pink paper hearts and whenever she does service for someone in our family, she will leave the heart or give it to the person she served. She asked for ideas of ways to serve. After making my bed, she glowed.

All of that reminded me of my summer at Academy for Girls. We had a yellow wooden Service Star. I'm sure you've heard of this idea to do a service and leave the star there for that person to do service for another.... etc.

So ... I emailed my amazing friend Katie who was a coordinator over Academy for Girls and she gave me the poem (that she wrote! so cute - eh!) that goes along with the service star. Amazing that she still had it after 10 years and amazing that she could find it so quickly to email back within 30 minutes. She was willing to share it with us.

(I thought I'd share the star I designed with poem by Katie Hughes with y'all if you're interested. Just click on the image to enlarge. That image is the full-size 8x8. Shrink to whatever size you want in Word, laminate, poke a hole in the top, string a lovely ribbon, and you're set.  Or modge podge it on a wooden star.)

I thought this week Hannah would be extra excited to get this activity started since she just learned about service. The MAGiCal nature of being a service fairy seems right up Hannah's alley.

It also seems like a fun thing to pull out every once in a while when we need some extra LOVE at home.

There is JOY in spreading the MAGIC of service.