Service--Dhyana

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Dhyana,

 

How beautiful you stated this! I know what you mean and I too try to do what I

must without thinking about how distasteful they might be! I am proud of you my

dear friend and I may be needing your advice as I start up the npc soon.

 

Love,

Katherine

 

 

 

novalees <Novalees

 

Friday, September 7, 2007 5:23:23 PM

Service

 

 

In the early days when I first moved into serving others I would look

for opportunities every day. The smallest thing that would appear to

me I would jump at. People were afraid to mention things to me because

I would be all over them. Ah, those were the young days!

 

As I grew in being a Servant opportunities would come that would show

me things that were in no way what I wanted to do. I didn't recognize

them as opportunities at first. I just saw them as awful, and would

run in the other direction! After a while I began to feel deep pangs

of " conscience " when I would pass by these " opportunities. " I

recognized I was being called to do these things that were so

distasteful to me. In finally surrendering to them I began to see that

these were the real acts of service because I was going beyond myself

in what I was willing to give to another.

 

Then the opportunities would become very subtle, and easily missed.

And if I missed them a deep ache would begin in my heart. Sometimes I

had to cry to release it, and promise myself that I would do better. I

found that my heart was really becoming a part of this, in fact it was

leading me. It would see things that my eye couldn't. And so I began

to listen to it more instead of going by sight. The Service bagan to

deal with issues of the human heart, as well as physical needs. I

learned when a hug was needed, or a touch, a word, a look...nothing more.

 

I found Service becoming a state of being " available', no matter what

the situation was. The other was the focus, and what was revealed to

do. It felt like being a glove on the hand of the Divine.

 

I no longer go looking for things, they come to me. The present moment

is a split second, and so much can be missed if the attention is

elsewhere. In being a Servant I've learned how loving God is, and how

much that Love wants to move into the world. How much the tiniest need

is noticed, and cared about. So, the more we become available, the

more Love can enter the world. With each act of Service we add

momentum to the River. Nothing is too small.

 

Thanks for listening. Love and hugs, dhyana

 

 

 

 

 

 

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