Service III

Hello Everyone,

Let's get into service as a value. I think just about everyone agrees that someone doing service is to be:

respected
admired
appreciated.

Why? What is it about people who give of themselves to serve? Why do we value them? Why do we value service?

What is a value anyway?

The dictionary gives lots of meaning for the word value....notice the one in red.

val�ue ��
(vly) KEY
�NOUN:
An amount, as of goods, services, or money, considered to be a fair
and suitable equivalent for something else; a fair price or return.
Monetary
or material worth: the fluctuating value of gold and silver.
Worth in
usefulness or importance to the possessor; utility or merit: the value of an
education.
A principle, standard, or quality considered
worthwhile or desirable: "The speech was a summons back to the patrician
values of restraint and responsibility" (Jonathan Alter).
Precise meaning or
import, as of a word.
Mathematics An assigned or calculated numerical
quantity.
Music The relative duration of a tone or rest.
The relative
darkness or lightness of a color. See Table at color.
Linguistics The sound quality of a letter or diphthong.
One of a series
of specified values: issued a stamp of new value. TRANSITIVE VERB: val�ued ,
val�u�ing , val�ues
To determine or estimate the worth or value of;
appraise.
To regard highly; esteem. See Synonyms at appreciate.
To rate according to relative estimate of worth or desirability; evaluate:
valued health above money.
To assign a value to (a unit of currency, for
example).
ETYMOLOGY: Middle English, from Old French, from feminine past
participle of valoir, to be strong, be worth, from Latin valre; see wal- in
Indo-European rootsOTHER FORMS: valu�er (Noun)
Thesaurus:
synonyms for value

So we are saying that we hold service as a principle...a standard that is highly desirable.

Do you?

Research shows that those people who valued service were much happier than those who didn't.

Why?

Next we will look at some famous people and check it out.

Till tomorrow.

LA