Weekly Soul - Week 26 - Service
Today's meditation from Weekly Soul: Fifty-two Meditations on Meaningful, Joyful, and Peaceful Living by Dr. Frederic Craigie. -26- Not everyone is called to a life of service—at least, not in the most obvious sense of becoming a social worker or volunteering in a soup kitchen. Indeed, many who take that path soon realize that even these activities can become divorced from the rest of your life. Service, defined broadly, can be how you interact with each person and in each situation, no matter what the circumstances are. Gerald Jampolsky Before she became a best-selling author, Marianne Williamson had a job for a time as a cocktail waitress. She came to realize that the most important part of this work was not serving up drinks; it was reaching out and making a personal connection, one-by-one, with patrons. Reflecting on this understanding of service, she commented that every business could be “a front for a church.” You see this understanding of servic...