Oh God, please find it within your heart to grant me a heart that looks after itself only because it has first looked after others. And help me to realize that anything less is not a heart.

Sacrifice is a noun in my vocabulary that should be a verb in my life.

While real sacrifice is committed to the result, it relishes the effort

Making oneself large involves intentionally making oneself small.

If it has anything to do with me, it has nothing to do with sacrifice.

Although I’m seldom aware enough to see it, the greater cost regarding that which I possess was not what I paid for it, but what someone along the way sacrificed so that I might have the opportunity to pay for it.