Hannah Klein,University of Dayton Alumni ('18) currently serving with Jesuit Volunteers, is at Akoyikoyi School in Chuuk, Micronesia, "I do not wish to be strange to you. I am not here to trample through your village or to prove myself, my country, or my language. I am here to be. "

This morning, I received an encouragement from a dear friend to "be thankful for a God who keeps us guessing." What a hard thing to be thankful for, when I would much rather tell God what I want and have it appear as if I ordered it off a menu.

I decided on a year of service for many reasons, one of them being that I don’t know what to do with my life yet. Who does, right? I’m still young, so why not throw caution to the wind, move across the country to a place I have never been, move in with people I have never met, live on a small stipend in one of the most expensive cities, and work in a field I have no experience with?

Grace Sinopoli has been serving through Sycamore House Service Corps in Harrisburg, PA. Her blog post from March truly demonstrates the Marianist spirit of community.