Exercise
There is one request that rarely, if ever, comes into the mind and heart of one in one hundred million people, let alone that it might be uttered by the willing heart:
Please God... Show me what I might do for the sake of the greater Good, and lend me the strength to shoulder what I am asked to endure, that your will might be done in earth as it is in Heaven.
Talk Takeaways
Demands, and the sense of self that come with them, are blind because they mistake the part for the whole, incapable of seeing the bigger picture.
Parables and teaching stories are able to communicate truths to us in ways that other means of communication cannot.
In the story of the King looking for a new Governor for the Kingdom of Agape, most of the candidates were self-serving motives and full of demands, seeking more power and authority. The one who was selected said, "How can I be useful to you? How can I best serve what it is that you Will for the Kingdom?"
Except for the present state of human beings, everything in creation is being served in order to be completed, and at the same time serving the greater whole by fulfilling the purpose of its creation. Nothing in nature rejects what it receives. Everything in nature accepts what it receives in order to fulfill the purpose of its existence.
The one question we never ask others or life, especially in difficult moments, is "How can I best serve you? How can I be useful in this moment?"
Codependency is two people using each other for personal motives while claiming that they are helping each other.
You have been conditioned to believe that every moment exists to serve you and what you believe should be happening.
Within every negative reaction is an unconscious assumption that the moment exists to serve you, that the moment owes you something.
We all presently live in an unconscious world of thought that demands that the world line up with its own image of how life should be.
We are made in the image of the Divine, and as such we are created to serve and at the same time be served by what we are serving. That great circulation is the unfolding of creation.
Psychological fear is negative imagination of a time to come that is threatening to consume you.
Be useful to the revelation of the disparity between Heaven and earth. If you serve the moment properly, then you are laying down the self that creates that disparity through its demands to be served for its own interests.
Ask the right question -- ie: How can I be useful to you? -- from the truest part of yourself, and you will always receive exactly what you need to participate more fully in the greater Will that is for the Good of all. "But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you." -- New Testament