VOLUNTEER'S CREED

Though my troubles and my worries

are sometimes all that I can see---

still always I must remember

life's not only about me.

Other souls are also hurting

and I know that it's God's plan

to reach out to help another---

to extend to them my hand.

With this purpose as my focus---

to be a comfort to a friend---

all my troubles and my worries

seem to fade out in the end.

It is one of God's true lessons---

how my walk is meant to be---

true happiness I find when

life's not only about me.

                                  Tom Krause