The Application of Service

After reading this today, I knew it was a reminder to me and many of my friends that are Unselfish Givers. Enjoy, I did!! All my love, Parthenia
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Service is the ability to give of self (for example, time, knowledge, resources) without an attachment to the expectation of reward or recognition. Working with a consciousness of love (unselfish giving).

We are rarely taught to serve in life. We are taught to work. Work, we are taught, is the act of doing what needs to be done in order to acquire the things that we need.

Service is the act of doing what you love for the sake of loving it. This is the highest work you can do in the world. Service is the divine multiplier. When you perform an act of genuine service, giving of your time, energy, and resources as an act of love, the universe will multiply what you do and reward you with greater results than you expected.

. . . [M]ost of us hate what we do for work, hate the environment that we do it in, hate the people we do it with, or are sorely disappointed by the rewards we get. . . . We grow in a loving environment. It's not the money that is missing from the workplace, it is the love. It is the service.

. . . [S]ervice, doing what you love, has rewards that money cannot buy. It has become very clear to me that when you give yourself over to acts of love, passionately spending your time giving yourself over to acts of love, you are never at a loss or lack for the things that you need.  Believe it or not, we need much more in life than money. We need a sense of purpose. Purpose keeps you from being burnt out. Service gives you purpose. We need a personal mission that will help us focus our time and energy. When you are on a mission, you have passion, there is an internal fire that keeps you alive. Service keeps you alive and well. . . . Service gives you a reason to take care of yourself.

When you serve, you are not tied to the outcome. You are not invested in what people do as a result of what you do, or what people think about what you are doing. You give what you have because it makes you feel good. You give what you have because you know that the unique way in which you do what you do will make someone else feel good.

You may never know in this lifetime how your work and contributions made in love affect people. However, when you give a service, this is not your concern. You do what you do because you love to do it. Whatever you love will touch somebody.

Service, as a spiritual principle, does not imply or import poverty. Most of us think that if you serve, giving of yourself without focusing on the money, you will be poor. . . . There is a problem with this line of thinking.

Do what you love! Do it with passion! Do it with the understanding that if you are never rewarded with money or recognized by the public, you are making a valuable contribution to yourself. Shift your focus from money to love. When you have love, you want to give of yourself. When you give of yourself for the sake of love, the impersonal, immutable, perfect laws of the universe demand that you must be rewarded tenfold.

(One Day My Soul Just Opened Up by Iyanla Vanzant)