Attachment and Service to Others

Here are some thoughts that I recently shared with a local community service organziation tat is doing good work in helping people in crisis and seeking to help the people they serve become more empowered. If you are helping anyone in a crisis or to connect more with their own power or with the Greater Spiritual Power from Whom We All Come, perhaps these words will support you in your own journey. 

Let us give and serve without attachment to any particular result or outcome. It doesn’t mean that we can’t intend a desired outcome. It’s just that we need to release ourselves from choosing to feel badly when things don’t go as we plan, intend, and hope.

Any gift given or service rendered with attachment is a “gift” with the potential to create resistance and resentments in both the giver and the receiver. Giving freely means doing our best and trusting that those whom we are seeking to serve will do the best they can with what has been given. They may even reject what we offer. That’s OK. Our attachments to results and outcomes drain us because we are seeking to control that which is out of our control. This inevitably leads to suffering. When we do this, we are not trusting that our response is enough. Let’s choose to believe and trust (and eventually to know) that our responses are sufficient for the moment.

 The only thing we control is our response. Everything else is in someone else’s hands. And yet in our response is the power to transform the meaning of the present moment. This is the power to change the world right here and right now, in an instant.

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