dailydatewithgod

From the perspective of self-sufficiency, needing help or helping others seems like a polar opposites.  Extremes however are only a small part of the picture.  Most everything is interconnected.  On the path of life’s discovery where we learn who we are and what our role is in the world, we see things are rarely just one or the other.  As we grow towards self-actualization, determining which path is ours and carving out the life we feel we are meant to live, involves others.  No man is an island.  What I do  affects others no matter how solitary it is.  Along the individual path we see where we are of help to others and where they are of help to us.  Helping is simply a way of interacting with other human beings and the natural world.  It is not as is touted in some individualistic pursuits, a sign of weakness.  Helping provides us with a way to engage with others.  Not because we are better than or do not need help ourselves but because in that moment we can make a contribution. It lightens our hearts to connect with each other and the world around us.  When that connection involves helping we not only lighten the burden of others, but we allow the light of our hearts to shine through us.  Helping is not a hierarchical situation unless we turn it into one.  The reality is at one point or another in our lives, no matter how much of an individual we are, we are going to need help as well.  God invites us to see helping as an opportunity to practice being engaged in relationship with one another.