Missing Ministry

For the past year, I have not been fully engaged in ministry, but partly. Here's what I miss the most. In ministry (a word which means service), you are there for others. In fact you are there for others to the extent of putting yourself, continually, emotionally and physically at risk -- something which is well supported by statistics -- 'for nothing'. And it becomes a way of life, an attitude. In fact all walks of life should be like this, but they are not. OBSERVATION: Such ministry was hard for me at first, in the early years. Some vocations require a 'breaking in'.