Being in Service. I hear alot of people talk about this but what does this actually mean. What does it truly mean to be in service to others?
According to the Dictionary service means
the action of helping or doing work for someone.
a system supplying a public need such as transport, communications, or utilities such as electricity and water.
perform routine maintenance or repair work on (a vehicle or machine).
So let’s have a look at this first meaning as what I want to discuss here are how you and I can be of service to others. This is not a post about those beautiful souls who are already in service roles such as nurses or plumbers.
The action of helping or doing work for someone ~ this is pretty self explanatory and really makes you think. Most people think of service work as work that you are getting paid to do or maybe even work that you must do against your will but in this meaning, service is the act of helping someone out as well eg the act of cooking a meal for a friend who is going through trauma or grief or illness.
In this simple example, service means that you are there for your friend, providing nourishment for them at a time when they either physically or emotionally cannot provide for themselves. This is an act of service to that soul that we do so often without any thought but what if it was for a person who was wealthy and could afford to hire a chef or personal carer to take care of them if they fall on hard times? Do we then go and offer our services to them too? or do we see service as something that should only be gifted to ‘the everyday man’ or to those more in need than ourselves. I am curious to see what people think of the word service. Is it something that some pious saint does? or is it something that is as simple as holding a friend as they cry, or cleaning their house for them when they cannot, or holding the hair back for a friend who has had too much to drink (yes even this is an act of service)
What I am trying to highlight is that we so often do not recognise our actions as those as service. We so often see ourselves as not selfless beings and not beings of service when really, from day to day, we are constantly in service to each other. This my dear friends this is the meaning of humanity, brotherly love, compassion.
I’d like you to now take a moment and see how you have been of service to others throughout your life and how others have been of service to you, with this new awareness in mind. Think about how you felt both being of service to someone and receiving as well. Did it make you feel good? Did it make your heart smile or feel warm inside?
I would also like you to think of some ways that you can be more of service to others. If we as a society, stopped for a moment and did one act of service to another being everyday, this world will be so much more incredible and so much more love-filled than it already is.
From My Heart to Yours
Deena xXx
