Everyone is so starved for assistance that people who volunteer end up getting buried in "work". I've been involved with Habitat for Humanity for a while now and have gone from swinging a hammer on Saturdays to joining the board and two additional committees... eventually becoming the current board VP. All while continuing to swing a hammer on Saturdays.

I have gotten in over my head a few times, and it has at times put a strain on my life at home. I mean, I'm giving up time with my family to do all of it. But then, if I don't help...who will? I used to think "oh, someone else will take care of it" but now that I'm so involved, I see that there isn't always someone else there.

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Though I am different from you,
We were born involved in one another.

For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.

Complete surrender should not just come at moments in which one faces overwhelming odds, but in the calm when it seems one is personally in complete control of one's life.