“Strength is for service, not status. Each one of us needs to look after the good of the people around us, asking ourselves, ‘How can I help?’” – Romans 15:2, The Message
As I talk with potential leads and clients, I’ve realized something: I am the most excited and satisfied when an opportunity means helping a client in a meaningful way. Helping a company rebrand so that they can go after a new target audience? Check. Developing internal strategies and processes so that a company can scale? Ditto.
The fact probably shouldn’t surprise me. I suppose it doesn’t. It’s one of those ironic twists that God seems to like so much. I’ve been wired from the get-go to help people. A mentor at church has said it’s one of my spiritual gifts. I’m beginning to think she’s right. I like to help, to develop a plan of action and implement it.
(Okay, God, I get it. You made me uniquely suited to helping people and gave me the desire to do so.)
Sometimes help means content writing. Other times it means marketing strategy. The guise doesn’t matter all that much. What matters is the end result: am I helping people? Are my gifts being used to serve others, to look after their good?
If they are, then I am perfectly content. No, delighted. I can rest in a job well done because I have done it well. I’ve done my best to honor God and to help clients achieve what is good for them, what helps them launch further and further out.
So here’s the question: how can I help you?
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