I’ve spoken with many people over these past several months. Family, friends, colleagues—the message is the same: They want to do more.
But with the ongoing restrictions due to the spreading virus, there’s confusion—and often frustration—in trying to figure out how to be in service.
We want to reach out in connection and inspiration, but we’re being told to stay apart.
I can remember times of frustration in my past when my “small self” rose up. Its voice became loud and self-serving. And I remember, too, there was a simmering sense of victimhood.
“I want!” the small self used to say. “But I need!” It was particularly obvious in personal relationships. When I was a younger man on my spiritual growth path, I always put my needs above others.
But as I’ve matured, my inclinations have naturally moved toward wanting to make sure other people’s needs are met first. I’m deeply grateful for my years of spiritual practice which support me on my present inner journey.
Your spiritual foundation will also serve, to quiet the small-self voice with loving kindness and remind you that it is simply an unfulfilled mirage that holds no real meaning.
The voice of Truth flows effortlessly when we remember, “I Am the Source.” Whatever we want, whatever we need, we must first share, and then we realize it was always there.
I believe that at our core, we all want to give. We all want to help. I know that who we all are is Love incarnate. When we surrender in service to Oneness, the Light of Divinity within shines through.
If you’re having moments of feeling irritable, constrained, challenged, and perhaps lonely, it’s completely understandable. And, as creatures of habit, we often fall into the mode of reacting and pushing against that which is happening.
But being in a state of non-acceptance never changes anything. At least not permanently. And isn’t it rather ungenerous of us to think we know better than the Divine?
There is never sacrifice in doing for others. In spiritual terms, we are the other, so why would we place our needs above theirs? Supporting others is not difficult because we are the Source, and all we have to do is drop the leaves of ungenerosity and stand humble before the nakedness of God.
Once surrendered, everything else falls easily into place.
Love,
Steve
