Comments | anahata56: Service... Or how we can all create greatness in the world

anahata56

Service... Or how we can all create greatness in the world

May 09, 2006 17:22

"Oh, I believe there are angels among us,
sent down to us from somewhere up above.
They come to you and me in our darkest hours
to show us how to live,
to teach us how to give,
to guide us with a light of love."

( It started with a jicama and ended with two tires, but the lesson goes on and on... )

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mythandwonder May 9 2006, 23:55:03 UTC

OK, if you want to do service, you MUST post the jicama/mango recipe. Spirit told me so.

And I'm very glad you had several angels to help you deal with the flat tire!

anahata56 May 10 2006, 00:05:08 UTC

Heck, the hardest part of the salad recipe was finding the damned jicama ( ... )

freyas_fire May 10 2006, 07:47:10 UTC

I'm definately writing this one in the cookbook journal. :)

The car and the jicama stories were wonderful - it gives us all hope and confidence that there really is angels walking among us.

anahata56 May 10 2006, 23:38:39 UTC

You will LOVE this salad, I promise.

And I'm beginning to see angels more and more...

I think it's because I'm actually paying attention!

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silkensteel May 10 2006, 03:26:21 UTC

Dr. Martin Luther King said, "If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven played music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well....Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love."

"The beauty of a Shaker chair is in the idea that the person who made it truly believed that an angel might come and sit in it."

siliconshaman May 10 2006, 10:30:35 UTC

Amen... and why machine produced stuff is frequently crap...no heart to it. Although not always, sometimes you can see by the design that somebody in a design office somewhere really loves their job!

anahata56 May 10 2006, 23:37:25 UTC

My cousins daughters came to me when they were just young and asked me to teach them magick. I took each of them by the hand and walked them to the sink full of dirty dishes.

They were horrified.

"Wash them as if the Lady was coming to your house, and that She would be the next being to eat from them..."

They both grew up to be pretty magickal ladies, and a good bit of it shows up in the way they approach their work.

I'd like to think that that lesson had a bit to do with that.

siliconshaman May 10 2006, 10:33:03 UTC

That I can understand... speaking as someone who is in a service related job. Depite what our trainers would have us believe, for me at least it's about doing the best job I can and helping the people at the other end of the phone.

anahata56 May 10 2006, 23:34:14 UTC

If you can keep that in your head, and know that what you do makes someone's situation better, and therefore what you do is important to the quality of life on this planet, your job can take on a depth of satisfaction and joy that is incomparable.

Been there, done that, try to hold onto it every working day of my life.

What I do MEANS something to someone, and that is enough to get me out of bed in the morning.

And you know what? I really don't give a shit about what the bosses expect--I don't work for them. I work for the people whose lives I touch, and that's all that matters to me.