Get Beyond Yourself

Helping others brings good feelings to the giver and the receiver of the good deeds, like giving the best gift ever to yourself.  Giving service to those that can use your talent will also help you feel less stress, which in turn creates a feeling of gratitude for all that you have in your life.

We must trust the Lord and let Him guide our lives. The Lord will bless us with the needed strength, guidance, patience, charity, and love to serve His children.  May we find simple, yet profound ways to daily serve God as we serve each other.

John 13:12-14        
When he had washed their feet and put on his outer garments and resumed his place, he said to them, “Do you understand what I have done to you? You call me Teacher and Lord, and you are right, for so I am. If I then, your Lord and Teacher, have washed your feet, you also ought to wash one another's feet.

Luke 6: 38
Give, and it will be given to you. Good measure, pressed down, shaken together, running over, will be put into your lap. For with the measure you use it will be measured back to you.”

Mark 10:45
For even the Son of Man came not to be served but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”

from the pen of Emily Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking,
I shall not live in vain.
If I can ease one life the aching,
Or cool one pain,
Or help one fainting robin
Unto his nest again,
I shall not live in vain.

 

 from Helen Keller:  

Happiness cannot come from without. It must come from within. It is not what we see and touch or that which others do for us which makes us happy; it is that which we think and feel and do, first for the other fellow and then for ourselves.