“God understands us when we try to love.” — Dorothy Day, Activist for Women’s Suffrage/Social Justice.
I’ve been obsessed with angels of late. I seem to feel them around more than ever. Are they delivering something to me, or am I failing in some respect and it is believed I need guidance? Regardless, I am receiving them and I hope they like what they find. I am certainly not ready for sainthood, by any means, but I work on improving day after day.
I have studied the Saints and their deeds, and I know emphatically that ‘working at doing good’ is the avenue I need to walk. I believe it is important to remember that Holy people were ordinary human beings once, too. They were full of complexities and struggles, just like us. Yet, their lives were spent in service to others. It’s been said an extraordinary person is one whose inner and outer lives are in accord. When a person does in the world what his innermost being leads him to do, his life is in alignment with his purpose, and by that great things can emerge.
My new campaign of ‘I Can Do Better‘ is working in my daily life. I hope if you decided to try it on for size, it might be working well for you, too!
“The world will be saved by beauty.” — Dostoyevsky, 19th Century Russian Novelist.
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When doing good I find it necessary to examine my motives. If I am doing good for any reason other than out of love, then it is a self-seeking desire. This is a progression for me from helping others to stay safe myself to helping others to produce a “good” feeling to doing good because it’s the right thing to do to doing good for the sake of love as God loves me and I want to share it with anyone I help, but don’t tell them that.
Jim- always interesting and thought provoking responses. I understand your progression through the paces when we are acting in service to others. Although I have not struggled with that for sometime now as I find I am most comfortable leaning into God’s love and direction. What I do struggle with is sometimes becoming resentful when I am pulled from my quiet and need for solitude. I wanted to share this with you as I know you have deep insight into how imperative the practice of silence is for an ascending soul.