Career in Service

The corporate world is often defined by greed. Profit is the end game of its model, and its means often include asking for the greatest amount another is willing to pay for the product or service while simultaneously paying the lowest amount to those employed making the product or performing the service. It is a world in direct contrast to serving God. It is in direct contrast to a life living at One with our Lord.

Many of us define ourselves based on our career or occupation. However this is such a small part of who we truly are, and it plays a part to keeping our world out of balance. Our work is what we give to the whole; it is our opportunity to serve. If we see our talents as a gift and the opportunity to serve using our talents as a gift while receiving the gifts of others, we lift our perspective from ourselves to others.  It is a step in changing perspective from self to the Eternal All.

Lawyers.  In, with, and through natural law God is the law. However since we are poor interpreters and are not united in any interpretation, man creates and enforces his or her own laws. Man’s laws are seen as gospel. While those who create and pass and enforce and judge the laws are highest in the land. In that land governed by man created laws, laws become God versus God is law.

Doctors are healers. One can heal both with manmade knowledge and with God’s energy. Both are gifts from God. Use this gift in service to bring comfort and well-being to brothers and sisters. It is a great blessing, a great gift to be such a servant. But why are doctors so much more valued than nurses?

Teachers are extraordinarily important, but monetarily they are not regarded as valuable. But who defines what is important to teach? Expanding one’s mind and thinking is a good thing. Teach children to think, but even more important is to teach children to love.

Scientists learn about our natural world. It is very interesting. The difficulties arise when we believe our discoveries and/or our knowledge are more valuable than God, who created it all.

Expanding and exercising of minds is great and beneficial but expand towards God. Do not allow God to be second to science and technology. God is first. Keep God first. This does not mean returning to an era of darkness. God is Light. Allow God to teach. You will be amazed where you will go. Humans are going down a path that will not lead anywhere. They have taken over for God, the Source of All, and our creation is sick and possibly dying. It is time to bring in a new physician.

Those in any form of media are communicators. Again, a very sacred and beautiful gift to be given, to be able to communicate to our brothers and sisters. What is being communicated? If one is a devout servant of God, one shares what one knows of God. Whatever is being shared, the message must always be of Love.

Entertainers are a very valuable occupation in this world. Why are entertainment, sport, recreation so highly valued in this world of numbing busyness? Why are our entertainers and sports stars worshipped as if they were the Gods and Goddesses on Olympus?

Farmers, our food providers. How are they not rewarded as the most important and most valuable occupation?

Service sector … where many of us currently work. Service to our brothers and sisters in any capacity is good and of value. However in today’s world, we often provide a service that the other can easily do his or her self – housekeeping, child rearing, food preparation, pet care, lawn and garden care, pool service, work on the home, work on the transportation ( also hair dressing, nail care, exercise coach, driver, security persons, dress maker …) – one with enough resources, does not have to do much of anything for him/herself except earn more resources.

Currently doing for another provides income for the person doing the work but keeps those working for others in positions of servitude. There is a difference between serving another out of love for God, and servitude out of need – which is more exploitation than love.

Manufacturing work is the flip side of the corporate world. The worker bees feed the machine to bring home a subsistent amount to support the family. The work is often soul crushing, the work of a drone but without the enjoyment of sweet honey at the end of the day.

Insurers – a whole industry created and based on fear of loss. The protection is much needed and appreciated but would not be necessary in a culture at One with All.

Bankers – those that invest our money. Why do we need bankers if we do not need to hoard and to save our monies? Money is a unit of exchange so that we do not need to exchange actual items. If you need a sheep and I have one and I need some cotton and you have this – we exchange, based on a quantity of equivalent value (generally bartered upon). This system was too cumbersome, so we invented currency as the unit of exchange and value determined by demand. People, wanting more resources for themselves, started saving and investing. We built banks and bankers – we opened checking accounts and used paper checks in place of currency. We opened savings accounts and made investments into the future. 

We fear not having enough in the future, so we save and require banks and bankers to do this, because we not only want to save what we have earned, but we want our money to make a return on investment, so that we have more money than what we initially deposit. We give the bank our money – they use it according to their business strategies – in the attempt to make money with our money and give us a percentage on the return. They make an even larger percentage by doing this. So, an entire sector has been developed around investments; personal, corporate and political.

When the material world desires become more important a priority than the desire for unity with God, then it creates imbalance. This imbalance is one source for all the world’s troubles. It creates improper perspective, not seeing the world in God’s perspective.

In a world out of balance desires run rampant and people gorge themselves. Place the physical desires within the desire for unity with the Divine where each of us has a place and its place is seen and experienced through the eyes, ears, heart, soul and mind of the Eternal.

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We are connected like the grass whose roots intertwine underneath the soil where our eyes cannot see, but each blade is connected to the other blades. Even though we cannot see the roots or chords connecting us to one another, they are there no matter how we define ourselves.