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Helping others is too often looked upon as a burden. Yet the truth is, it's a privilege to be in a position to help. Through your compassionate actions, you are becoming more intimately involved in life's creative process. Help in the way it's needed---emotionally, mentally, physically, financially, or spiritually. People too often take care of every little need for themselves but will not help those in front of them who need help. And perhaps most important, make sure when you help, you put your heart into it.
THE ART OF GIVING AND RECEIVING BOOKS
As a child, we first learn to give and to receive in visible ways--we're fed, clothed, and sheltered and we then learn to feed, clothe, and nourish, and care, for others. As we mature, we undertake other vital acts of caring--we serve as listeners to our friends and loved ones; we encourage them and pray for them; we grow in our effectiveness in the world and learn to help and empower others.
Learning to manage our personal power means that we have to become aware of how we work with our energy and whom to give it to. It's also about how much we are willing to surrender to divine guidance, which often comes to us in the guise of inner intuition. By finding our inner compass and acting on its promptings, we come into our full power and fulfill the life mission that we were born to complete. This mission includes not just the daily work we do, but every relationship we have and every person we meet, everyone we help, and everyone who helps us.
Personally, the practice grew into a spiritual awakening for me. Upon doing a simple examination of how I put into action to promote interest in free reading, I receive infusions of grace
on a daily basis in the middle of everyday tasks of making a living and taking care of my family and friends. "Grace holds together the whole of our life - and all of our lives collectively. It watches over us and will come to our aid if we ask," wrote Caroline Myss.
The main message that I often stress to my visitors, guests, book donors, friends is to open our self to the message that we are receiving from our intuition. Many people resist hearing the messages their intuition sends them. Often because they don"t want to deal with the changes that they would have to make if they listened and acted in guidance.
There is no such thing as a small act of service or goodness. Tao Te Ching advises; "Do the great while it is still small. The effect of every small action are multiplied a thousandfold.
Every time someone says, "God please help me," the universe hears. The gods may let you practically drown before they respond and send you a boat--because you are to learn how to build a boat and how to row it--but they will respond. The power of a single wish can change our life. And once we ask, once we open our mind and hears to the possibility of an answer, you will get an answer, even though it may not be the one you want or in the form you expect.
Now, go and learn to love your neighbor as thyself.
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