Who We Are Is Why We Serve by Steven East
Who we are revolves around what helping others actually means to us, those being helped, and to the universe as a whole. Willingness of those who serve to constantly evolve beyond their initial expectations of what this process should entail is crucial. This willingness for those who help to become more effective in this endeavor will determine their self-awareness. Curiosity and open mindedness allow us to remain confident that we are all capable of so much more, especially when in the process of helping others.
Helping others is the vehicle that takes us though our journey of discovering who we are, what our purpose in life is, what brings us contentment, what makes us stronger, and how every thing in the universe is interconnected. This self-awareness of our true unpolluted motives allows us to become something more than we could ever hope to be. Helping others allows us to recognize the importance of unity. True service requires proliferation of unity amongst those who serve and those they serve. This, in turn, allows all to be a part of something bigger, more powerful, and of which completes our existence. As we progress in the field of recovery, we should be able take inventory on a daily basis and know that we are much better at helping others and dealing with our own issues on any given day than the day prior. This requires that we remain teachable, not only in respect to the instruction of our peers and mentors, but most importantly those whom we serve. They will ultimately be the catalyst to providing us with the ability to break the glass ceiling of our expectations of how effective we can be in service. We are all students of those in need of our assistance. In the same token we commit an injustice when our reluctance to ask for help sidelines a willing fellow participant. The more we make ourselves a part of the process of helping, the more we realize that it provides us with something greater than just accommodation of passion. I believe every one is truly at their best when helping others, but instinctively this concept goes against our very sense of self-awareness. We fight all of our lives to establish our own individual contributions to the world only to find out that all we have ever done that is significant happened in the presence of unity with others. This is what it truly means to be spiritual. One must be the best at helping that one can be in order to truly understand what it means to be human. Showing up to help and truly helping are two different things.
