For whatever reason, recently I am receiving the message of “service to others,” “service for others,” “serve others.” I am feeling bombarded with need-to-serve messages.
Which, I hasten to add, I know to be a good message…and even
if I didn’t know it, I wouldn’t admit to it. I mean, common sense tells me
it’s a good message…except that it seems every time I get it, I sorta wilt.
Then I start justifying that I do, why I don’t, how much I do…uh-oh, not
enough. Let’s face it, “serve others” is a downer to me.
Maybe the problem is that the very word “serve” feels to me
like a lecture, and lectures that I haven’t selected of my own free will just
tick me off. I’m not big on sermons either which it also feels like.
I’m guessing I need to reinterpret the word…maybe if I just
drop the word entirely. When I read “serve others,” think “others.” “Service
to/for others” is just “others” if I want it to be.
Thank You.
Thank You.
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