Extending Assistance

The Road

Here is the road: the light
comes and goes then returns again.
Be gentle with your fellow travelers
as they move through the world of stone and stars
whirling with you yet every one alone.
The road waits.
Do not ask questions but when it invites you
to dance at daybreak, say yes.
Each step is the journey; a single note the song.

~ Arlene Gay Levine ~

(Bless the Day, ed. by June Cotner)

 

 

Too easily we forget that everyone we come in contact with struggles with life and life's lessons just as much as we do.  From the outside, it may appear that everyone else has a life of good fortune or ease, but indeed this is not the case.  Outer appearances can mask the true journey within.

 

There is this certain friend of mine who I swear has a direct link to the angels or is an angel in disguise.  Her life is filled with experiences like assisting someone during a fire or catching a baby bird as it falls from a tree.  She is the living definition of a 'verb'.  Spirit seems to be moving her at all times where she may reach out with a helping hand ... definitely she is not a noun, sitting like a lump.

 

My friend has problems of her own as part of the human experience, but she recognizes that we will all prosper by helping some one else when we can.  By extending assistance to others, my friend maintains a compassionate heart.  Her positive affirmative actions with others keep her moving forward rather than isolated in singular despair. 

 

We journey through life with individual lessons, but when we are called to action, to spontaneously help some one we meet along the way, and we answer that call, our inner light grows stronger.  Our connection with others brings the light of Spirit

into the hearts of all.