Serving others is more about our attitude toward others than it is about bringing food and dollars to others...it being a given neither food nor dollars are ever unwelcome. The point being if we give material goods with a hateful attitude, we are all but guaranteeing those goods will be received with a resentful attitude. That resentful attitude has our name all over it, and only we are unaware of it.
Where there is no love, there is no God.
Sincerely serving others is all about love. If we are serving others as a self-determined objective, just to put a check on our 2-DO list, we have our reward...which is, plain and simple, a check on our 2-DO list.
Playing Lady (or Lord) Bountiful does not elicit love or even gratitude. It is playing, i.e., acting. Which brings us to that fork in the road of free choice...the choice between ego victory or spiritual growth. Ego victory is the siren song of the sinner, and who amongst us isn't, or at some point in life hasn't been, just that? Ego victory is really hard to pass on it.
We can be acting in order to look good, snow others, be thought wonderful, or we can be acting in order to discipline our self, to get to the place within where we are graced with gratitude. Being thought wonderful is so enticing...compared with graced with gratitude which nobody outside our self sees for a long time...unless we tell them and then we lose it.
Probably spiritual growth is so hard to pick over ego because it has no bells and whistles, no frills and add-ons. Spiritual growth is just that, and we know it when we have it...sometimes not even then.
There it is...the razzmatazz of ego victory versus the grace of God. Razzmatazz is the language of the reasoning mind, grace is the peace that passes understanding.
We must go beyond reason to love.
Thank you.
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