All Are Ministers! (if you so choose.)
To minister is to serve, to help, to attend.
All of us are here to serve.
Some serve themselves.
Some serve the needy.
Some serve goodness and mercy.
When we accept a call to minister, we must attend to our unique calling.
When we have meaning and purpose in our lives, we give meaning to everything we do.
When we accept that we are here to serve, we assign service to all we do and say and give.
When we remember the value of service, we are open and willing to serve without limitation.
To limit ourselves to what others have assigned us by degree, profession or compensation is inadequate.
To limit ourselves to what we have personally, is to limit the resources we are given when we serve.
To limit ourselves because we are afraid or consumed by our own excuses and drama, is unnecessary.
To limit ourselves due to lack of external approval or appreciation, is inappropriate.
When we remember to love, we are here to serve Love.
When we give our whole selves to Love, we expand our ability to Love and serve.
When we step away from personality and step into a Higher Purpose, we are given the means to serve.
When we trust in our inner Source and resource and listen for guidance, we can do whatever is called.
There is no right way to minister, for each of us is called to serve uniquely.
Some are called to the creative arts, to entertain and inspire.
Some are called to coach and teach and motivate our youth and those who want to learn.
Some are called to nurse, to rescue, to offer sympathy and loving kindness.
Some are called to treat, to heal, to compensate for physical, mental and emotional disease.
Some are called to nurture and nourish, to protect and provide, to create a safe home for others.
Some are called to build, to provide parks and homes and places to live, recreate and work.
Some are called to enjoy, to beautify, to sanctify and offer inspirational reminders.
Some are called to follow day by day, exactly the way they are guided to love, serve and remember.
Remember that Life, yours and mine, are for giving.
You and I are the gifts.
Unwrap your Presence.
Experience your Goodness.
Trust in the giving.
Free your willingness.
Expand your gratitude.
Celebrate your uniqueness.
Value your wholeness and Holiness.
Enjoy your ministry.
Loving you in Loving you to share the Best of You,
Betty Lue
LOVE
There is no difficulty that enough love will not conquer;
No disease that enough love will not heal;
No door that enough love will not open;
No gulf that enough love will not bridge;
No wall that enough love will not throw down;
No sin that enough love will not redeem.
It makes no difference
how deeply seated may be the trouble,
How hopeless the outlook,
How muddled the tangle,
How great the mistake.
A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.
If only you could love enough, you would be the happiest
and most powerful being in the world.
Emmet Fox