Service is closer to generosity than it is to duty… (that) Service is small and quiet and everywhere…We serve by who we are and not what we know…we dont serve with our strength, we serve with ourselves. We draw from all of our experiences. Our limitations serve, our wounds serve, even our darkness can serve. The wholeness in us serves the wholeness in others and the wholeness in life. The wholeness in you is the same as the wholeness in me. Service is a relationship between equals…. Serving is also different from fixing. …There is distance between ourselves and whatever or whomever we are fixing. Fixing is a form of judgment. All judgment creates distance, a disconnection, an experience of difference. … We cannot serve at a distance. We can only serve that to which we are profoundly connected, that which we are willing to touch. … We serve life not because it is broken but because it is holy…. Our service serves us as well as others. That which uses us strengthens us. Over time, fixing and helping are draining, depleting. Over time we burn out. Service is renewing. When we serve, our work itself will sustain us. ~~dr rachael naomi remen~~
Posted on: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 03:10:05 +0000
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