Sacrifice

My tap teacher showed this to us in class this morning, and presented an interesting perspective.

Most of us are not away at war, few of us will ever have to worry about contracting a serious disease like malaria.  The sacrifices we are asked to make are very different, but not any less important.  Perhaps the sacrifices that we make now are not in laying down our life or going off to battle, but in the daily choices we make to live consistent lives of truth.  We talk a lot about sacrifice, but not much about it's purpose.  It seems to me that the purpose of sacrifice is to help others be able to go home- home to our Father in Heaven.  When viewed from that perspective, the seemingly small choices I make on a daily basis suddenly have much greater weight and significance.  

So maybe that's how this is worth it,

and how sacrifice finds purpose:

When we give our life so someone else can live.

So someone can go home.