Giving Expands Love for All

We live in a topsy-turvy world where taking (procuring, collecting) is a virtue and giving is something reserved for holidays when we expect to receive an equal amount in return.

We are afraid to give because we are afraid to lose that which we have. But to follow God we must be willing to give all that we have – to our very physical being. We must be willing to give to others, giving to others is giving to God and to All.

The more one has the more difficult it is to give, because one needs to give so much more and fear of loss is greater. If one has been blessed in the physical, love God and in gratitude give that which one has been blessed with to others, especially to those in need. Every time one gives, one receives, but this is not the point in giving. We give because we love. We love the Eternal and wish to show our love by giving to all or to whoever we are able, whenever we are able.

Lots of people already give and serve one another, the animals, plants, and the planet. There is so much goodness and so much work for good. I admire and wish to follow those who serve with such unselfishness; sacrificing their time, resources and energy to help others in need and distress.

We have tied self-fulfillment to resource procurement, i.e. a career, instead of to serving God and others. Again we are upside down – if we tied our self-fulfillment activities to serving and giving of self to others, we would live closer to God in this world – there is nothing this world offers that can be as fulfilling or as rich.

Think of whatever our life’s work is as service. The payment received for your work sustains one’s life and the life of one’s family. This, too, is a service. Service expands the universe from self to others, helping to create an awareness of all.

God does not need us to serve Him/Her just as a drop of water does not need to serve the ocean. Our opportunities to serve come from our fellow drops of water; human, animal, plant, and earth. He does not need our service, but our service opens us to Him. It is for our benefit that we serve.

For a child of the Creator there is no such thing as sacrifice. It is no sacrifice to serve another. It is an extension of love. We can either choose to extend love or choose to retract love in fear. Choosing love produces higher states of consciousness for all; choosing fear keeps us attached to the material.

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If you have enough for yourself and those you provide for, then give. Do not take more resources than you need. Why would one want more than what is needed to live while others in this world do not have enough to survive? Give, share the wealth. Lend a helping hand, give a loaf of bread, a drink of water, whatever is needed, give. Service helps one open his/her heart, opening of the heart is the path to God. We are love. See the love within and without of each of our fellow drops. Speak to that love, act on that love.