To Be Of Service One of the things that really struck me when I was reading the 7 paths of initiation by Jamie Sams was the necessity that an initiate wishes to be of service. In fact, along the path it is one of the most integral steps. I will be sharing the stories of my past lives that I have recalled (both in regression sessions and dreams) in a future blog that I have already written. One of the things that I discovered was how my soul valued the lives where I was a service to others. In the lives where I was self-indulgent and materialistic my soul didn't judge or regret them but there was the sense that they were not valued as much because there was no spiritual progress. To me, to really be a student of Spirit one has to dedicate themselves entirely to service. Now, that doesn't mean that we have to serve others in a spiritual function if it is a conscious choice to be so choosing to be a parent can be a form of service (not all parents provide the 'service' of parenting their children and, in fact, some fail to be the parent at all). Service can consist of many levels. So many people search for what they should be doing in life. People, especially when they have a profound Wake Up call (such as realizing that the Mandela affect is present in their lives) wonder what exactly they are meant to do. Well, Being of Service is what all of us is meant to do in our lives and it really isn't that hard. The first step is the golden rule: "Do unto others as you would have done unto you." Why I Prefer Service For me, personally, the greatest thing about the jobs that I have held for the majority of my time working is Customer Service. I love connecting to people and learning about them. Regulars in particular are very sweet and when they come into the shop every day or every week there is a relationship that develops. You ask about their kids or their husband. You know when their parents are ill or someone in their family dies. This loving relationship with strangers is a form of service. To some, in our materialistic world such an experience may just be the way they lay down the foundation for a Network. They can then use that network to the best of their benefit by developing relationships with people they want to do with business with in the future. For me, it has nothing to do with money or business. One time, I had a girl telling me how she was having a terribly hard time getting into the college she wanted into. I asked her how many she applied to and she admitted only the one. I challenged her to look into other schools, that clearly the one she was trying to get into wasn't meant to be given all of the challenges she had been handed. Getting into a college really shouldn't be that hard. Weeks later, she came to thank me profusely. She had been accepted by another college easily and it turns out that it was a better fit than one she had been so focused on. She had no one else in her life that would have pointed it out but, somehow, she wound up having that conversation with at 'lowly' customer service employee and it changed her life. To me, that is true service. Choosing Service As My Job If you asked me when I was younger if I would end up wanting to serve others I would say it's a crazy idea. I was very introverted and did not like interacting with people at all. Even now, it takes me a long time to recharge after a particularly demanding day of customers. Further, there are jobs that claim to be customer service jobs that are not. Anything entirely sales based is not really focused on the relationship with the customer. The moment I realized that I want to be of service to humanity is a crystal clear memory for me. I had returned to working at Starbucks, albeit at Albertsons, and I realized just why I liked the job before when I had worked for corporate Starbucks. I realized the real connection that it afforded and the ability to really take care of people. When people come into Starbucks having a bad day I make sure their drink is made especially good. In the very least, I am uplifting them at that moment. Over my years of experience I have witnessed that a drink made with love, with the intention of making another person's day better, can have that affect. I have also witnessed employees charged with negative emotions, who hate their lives, hate the job and think the majority of people in the world are 'dumb' make a drink and the customer complain that it tastes absolutely awful. In one case, a customer returned saying her coffee tasted like, "used cigarettes." Subsequently, customers will seek me out specifically to make the drink simply because they feel that I make it better even when I make a mistake with the recipe. Perhaps, as our intentions manifest more quickly the people with ill intentions will be made clear because their 'creations' will be tainted and detected by others in a more telling way. I have no ulterior motive, no sales gimmick, and I am not taking advantage of them. I am purely giving them the best service that I can give to them while striving to give them exactly what they want. I honor that they know what they want and do not try to persuade or argue with them about the small nuances. As long as they are happy with the final outcome the rest does not matter. Some people can't handle customer service. They become very negative and burnt out. They do not know how to recharge through their connection with the Universal Source ( I am not always the best at taking time out to do so) and become very bitter. There can be many downsides to customer service. I will not list them here. However, for me personally, the wonderful moments are what make it so worth it. For example, around Christmas I helped save a life. A man had a mysterious seizure that the doctors don't understand. I saw him fall, yelled for my co-worker to call 911 and ran to him. The store manager ran to him and having experienced something similar before told me to turn him on his side. Three of us, two of my male managers and myself got him on his side and held him there. Even in the fits of his seizure he calmed every time I talked to him. I told him that help was on the way and that everything was going to be alright. Despite how tense his body was because of the seizure he did relax when I said those words and did not attempt to go onto his back. When I did not talk to him he did try to go back to laying on his back and tried to fight us which might have killed him. The quick response we had to his seizure and calling 911 got him to the hospital in time. He was told that if he had gone back to his car, as he was attempting to do when I saw him fall over, he would have died. I did not have to think twice to go to his aide. Other customers stepped over him and still others, while the situation was going on, were ordering coffee as though oblivious. I found it heart breaking. Other people might have been afraid to get involved. I, however, after reading stories such as the Genovese syndrome. The Genovese syndrome was named after a woman was stabbed to death in the street with thirty-eight people watching and no one went to help her. One person only called the police after she was dead. There were a lot of reasons why people didn't get involved. Some expected someone else to call others while others were just too tired to deal with it and still others didn't want to be tattle-tales. Sadly, this is all too often the case. I have, personally, decided to intervene. I have decided that when I see a situation where someone is truly desperately in need. I do not look at homeless men wanting cash so he can get his next drug fix or a fake homeless person on a street corner collecting money to pay his bills with the guilt money from the wealthy to be truly in need. In our country, this has become a racket for people who don't want to get an ordinary job and too often the people are faking their poverty. Sometimes ordinary people are in dire straights and need a helping hand. For some reason some people are afraid to help and others just won't be inconvenienced. They will throw a few dollars a drunk filthy man holding a sign but when someone is bleeding on the ground dying they walk by without care. If I see a drunk driver I call the cops. I don't do it to get that person in trouble, not at all, I do it to save lives. Possibly the life of the driver and definitely the lives of people they could potentially hit. That, to me, is really being of service. Why I blog I write my blogs to be of service to others. I write them less for myself and more for other people I would be just as happy writing this in a personal diary. I had a dream, however, that impressed on me the need to share the information that I have found, what I have learned and the beliefs that I have with others. In the dream I was shown a very large warehouse. I knew that the different fascinating baubles and items were things that I had learned. But the warehouse was empty and lonely. I realized it was a shame to keep all of this to myself and that it would be of benefit to share it with others. Where is the fun in finding new exciting insights and points of view...or any form of enlightenment if you keep it to yourself? How does that really benefit humanity? That's the feelings the dream impressed on me and I realized my error. I have also seen so many negative people sharing their points of view. The Dark Age Christians who see the Apocalypse in every potential date of importance. The people who want to interpret any idea of something, from the Mandela effect to the end of the Processional Year, in a negative light. These people seem to want to call down the Apocalypse for no other reason than to punish other people. There are so many people who assume that some date associated with a turning point in human history must involve a terrible calamity whether economic, political or environmental. I understand the desire for such things. There is an inherent mechanism within us to see humanity as a blight on the Earth. I have heard it argued that we are a disease that is destroying everything in our path. I do not believe that this is so, precisely, certain practices we have put into place have been allowed to go wild without human intervention. This has caused an unhealthy imbalance in the world. I believe this can be fixed. I believe the majority of people want to fix it but don't know how. If, in some small way, my meanderings through different thoughts about several areas of life somehow contributes to a solution I am happy to be of service in that function. I hope, that as Jamie Sams explained about the Whirling Rainbow Dream, I am helping to bring the idea nurtured by Dreamers, Seers, Sages and Shaman's for centuries into reality. I would far prefer to see humanity living in harmony with the Earth and each other than any doomsday Apocalypse. Unlike others, I do not look outside myself for the answers or to a savior to fix things for me. Instead, I believe in the idea that if we change ourselves we can become examples to others and in turn save the world. People will want to emulate a way of being that brings true happiness which very few people really come to know. The Servant Leader This is exactly what Yeshua taught when he said in Matthew 20:25-28: "Jesus called all the followers together and said, "You know that the rulers of the non-Jewish people love to show their power over the people. And their important leaders love to use all their authority. But it should not be that way among you. Whoever wants to become great among you must serve the rest of you like a servant. Whoever wants to become first among you must serve the rest of you like a slave. In the same way, the Son of Man did not come to be served. He came to serve others and to give his life as a ransom for many people." I do not believe that this should only apply to the clergy. I believe this should apply to any person given any iota of power in the world. Those who would not be the servant automatically fail the test of being a suitable leader. Those who would use power to dominate and gloat in their superiority over others should not be leaders and no one should give them the chance to be leaders. Yeshua said it so simply over two thousand years ago, how did we get it so wrong? Why do we give power to bullies, why do we seem to value them more, why reward the person willing to stab another in the back, and not the servant who has shown nothing but loyalty and faithfulness to their fellow human beings? Why isn't the spirit of the servant cultivated and upheld as the the prime example of how humans should behave in general society? Why do we reward the crooked and the one who will do anything to get to the top? Conclusion Being a servant is not easy. Sacrificing for others, going that extra mile when other people might not appreciate it in the moment is something few people can manage. That takes a lot of energy that might not be returned. However, it can also be returned on an overwhelming level. Just the other day, I worked to uplift every person I encountered and perhaps three out of forty did not respond in kind. Yet, in serving, even when unappreciated you can alter the course of another persons life. The manner of service does not need to be specific. You don't have to be a part of a clergy, a cop, a firefighter or in the military. You don't have to be in a prestigious form of service. The janitor, the cashier, the fast food clerk, and the local gardener are all just as valuable forms of service! You can always tell the people who are not sincere leaders or teachers. They do not wish to be of service. They are not humble, as a servant would be, and they make it clear they feel a form of superiority to those they lead. They claim to have all of the answers but no one, absolutely no one on this Earth today, has all of the answers. True servants and teachers know they do not know everything. They do not gloat about their own authority over their students. They admit that they are fallible. A true teacher/leader admits that they are learning as they go and that they learn from their followers. They admit that what they represent is their own point of view and beliefs that might not be the same for everyone else. In fact, good teachers and leaders admit that they learn from their students or employees. This provides a balanced exchange of experience that makes everyone wiser. I choose to be of service. I choose not to pursue just my selfish desires and things that benefit only me. I choose to do all that I can to uplift humanity, to help my fellow human being and I humbly acknowledge that I am learning just like everyone else. Not everyone is a studious as I am, but that's why I try to bring ideas down to Earth in simple plain English so that everyone can understand them in a easily applicable manner. That is why I love the job that I do and can't imagine doing anything else anymore. Humble, simple and pure. A customer not so long ago asked me what I was doing in a grocery store when I shared a nugget of wisdom and some information with her that blew her mind. I admitted it was odd but I can't see where else I would be...because where I am at I can be more of service to a random person in need then any organization that focuses on the information I talk about. I touch the lives of a multitude of people of very faith, background and ideology instead of just being an example to like minded people. To me this is a huge plus. I will end on this note...I appreciate the fashions of the Hijab and Henna tattoos. Hijabs remind me of the 1950's fashion of wearing a bandanna over a woman's hair. I commented to a woman who had Henna that it was beautiful and complemented her Hijab using the correct term. As she was walking out of the store she commented to her husband, "See, the world is changing..." She did not try to convert me to Islam. She did not try to tell me I need to obey Sharia law...she was just happy to be recognized, appreciated and accepted. Isn't that, deep down, what we all want?
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