I joined a volunteer service club to complete a course in community service. I had much experience in doing volunteer services, but it wasn’t diverse. Then, a volunteer group called Safety Monitor caught my eyes.
Safety Monitor helped the safety of residents by monitoring big and small safety risk factors in local areas and making reports of them to the government institutions to prevent accidents from occurring. My first mission after joining the club was to inspect the surroundings of a university in my area. It was a place I was familiar with. I set to my mission with a light heart. However, I came across a number of things that could be a threat to the safety of residents, when I carefully inspected the area. I thought there was nothing that could possibly be of a threat, but within mere ten minutes of my mission, I found many risk factors, such as collapsed pedestrian crossing signs, uneven paving blocks, broken sporting goods, deeply dented roads, and cars parked at crosswalks.Those were the risk factors that are hard to be aware of, if we do not give careful attention.
Inspecting the streets, I thought, ‘There must also be spiritual risk factors that I might have missed.’ Things that I regarded as trivial crossed my mind. If I happen to face difficulty as a result of regarding things as trivial, I will be at a loss as to what to do. I will thoroughly examine not only my surroundings but also the factors that may be of a threat to my soul, so that I can be safe from spiritual harm.