WHAT REALLY IS MINISTERING?

The more I think about this issue, the more I discover new things about it. My thoughts on this subject are not exhaustive and some of us may not agree about them but I'll share them.
This week has really been a stretching one for me because I've had to undergo a training on Sharpening Your Interpersonal Skills. As I sit with my colleagues,  contemporaries, superiors and people from cultures different from mine, especially those from the West. I realize how aggressive the average Nigerian is. Not necessarily in behavior but in approach to life and taking what we think is rightfully ours. I've tried to explain it to be that since we were once colonized, we don't want to feel like we are dependent so it possibly affects our approach to life.
I realize how many people are NOT AT PEACE with themselves as touching phase of life, financial, marital status and other vital areas of life. On the contrary I really don't want to be CONVENTIONAL am probably willing to be content with what I consider to be just enough to go by, meaning having my basic needs met; being in the position where I may not be noticed because my focus is on building the' little human beings' God has blessed me with, so I can be available to watch them grow, help shape their world view because of how impressionable they are at this stage of life.
Have I given up on life? Have I become sedate or laid back? I doubt because of the intensity of my tasks, I also have my hands lightly on my job so I don't completely lose touch (thank God for my kind of job I have and the amazing support of my husband). I have come to a point where I consider what I do as ministering, whether it is washing the dishes, cleaning a mucour filled nose or speaking at a seminar, it is ministering. Whether to my husband or little children or to an audience, it is ministering. So if I do it whole heartedly and as unto the Lord, my rewards know no bounds both here on earth and in heaven.