To be of Service

Perhaps there is a stigma affiliated to being a 'servant', a person who serves others. If that is the case, then we are in deep trouble.

A lot of the good things that happen to us come about because of our willingness to be of service. It might be in small things; giving a neighbour a lift / baby-sitting for a young couple / visiting someone we know who is in Hospital etc.

So many ways are available to us to be of service. Many people become volunteers in the various Charitable Organisations found in communities and parishes.

There is almost an overflow of good will available, if it can be 'tapped into'. Some of us might be embarrassed to step up and offer our services / others are more than willing to put themselves 'out there' for others.

The great benefit of serving is the freedom one receives from oneself. Perhaps a cure for depression? as one man stated to me. His wife had died and he was not in the best of health. Depression set in very quickly. Then an idea came to him to offer his services. No more depression.

Thomas Merton wrote a great book called 'No man is an island'. He states how we have need for one another, just to exist as a human being

And, for the spiritual mind, Christ has asked us to love one another, as He has loved us.