{"id":10810,"date":"2014-11-13T00:00:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T05:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/?p=10810"},"modified":"2014-11-17T02:14:45","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T07:14:45","slug":"the-power-of-true-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/haveamagnificentday\/2014\/11\/the-power-of-true-service.html","title":{"rendered":"The Power of True Service"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Intention\"<\/a>Sam was doing his best to be a good person, not just once in a while, every moment of his life<\/em>.\u00a0 Sam had discovered true peace and contentment for the first time in his life.\u00a0 In fact, Sam had recently become enlightened.\u00a0 He was living from his heart and in the moment consistently.\u00a0 You see, one incredible day in May, Sam fully discovered his heart and became God-conscious.\u00a0 From that day forward, Sam does his best to live from his heart and with God’s love and compassion every moment.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sam had previously spent a large amount of his time and energy in his head planning, manipulating, worrying and trying to pretend he wasn’t afraid.\u00a0 He did pretty well and impressed many people, including himself at times.\u00a0 He had a good deal of success along with many failures too.\u00a0 As we do here on earth, Sam had certain lessons to learn.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like most humans, Sam figured out most of his life using his brilliant mind and super computer, often not fully using his other senses and intuitive powers.\u00a0 This can allow the ego to take charge and create chaos.\u00a0 Also, how can a person be satisfied from something they figured out in their mind, instead of in their heart, intuition and true desires?<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, Sam is learning to listen to his intuition and feelings.\u00a0 It is a very wonderful time for Sam spiritually in his life.\u00a0 His love for the truth, desire to discover God along with faithful, consistent meditation practice blossomed into self-realization.<\/span><\/p>\n

At the same time, Sam’s business and income has been a roller-coaster for the past 10 months.\u00a0 He was dealing with financial pressure and stress, and his daughter was quite ill and diagnosed with two rare diseases.
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Sam has been away from his wife and daughter for a month and has been fasting, praying and meditating.\u00a0 Their daughter has been through a tough and painful time.\u00a0 Sam and his wife are going through many challenges too.\u00a0 And still, Sam is doing his best to be an awakened good person every moment.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

So on Sunday, Sam feels like treating himself to a home cooked meal with organic eggs, toast and hash browns.\u00a0 One of Sam’s favorite treats is a pecan braid<\/em> from Panera Bread and he hasn’t had one in a long time.\u00a0 He calls his local store a few miles down the street and they are sold out.\u00a0 Sam calls another store two miles further away and a server named Oscar answers the phone.\u00a0 Sam says, “I checked with my local store and they are sold out of pecan braids, do you have any left?”\u00a0 Oscar checked and told Sam he was sorry they were sold out too.\u00a0 Sam sighed and said, “That’s how it is.”\u00a0 Then Oscar replied, “If you really want one I can bake some fresh for you in twenty minutes.”\u00a0 Sam said, “Really, that’s great.\u00a0 I’ll see you in an hour, please don’t rush and thank you so much for your kindness<\/em>.”<\/span><\/p>\n

It that moment Sam’s heart opened wide and felt a blanket of kindness and true service from a stranger named Oscar.\u00a0 He was so happy and sincere to help in his offer to bake some fresh pecan braids.\u00a0 Sam arrived an hour later and there was Oscar at the counter.\u00a0 He brought out the pecan braids and said, “I know you only ordered one, but I thought you should have two – so enjoy.”\u00a0 Sam felt such good vibrations.\u00a0 His heart eased and his spirit lightened from Oscar’s smile, energy and kindness.\u00a0 Then Oscar mentioned Sam could go online and give feedback on the service as their store was going through a tough period.\u00a0 Sam looked directly into Oscar’s eyes, smiled and said, “You can count on it.\u00a0 Happy to.”
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As Sam walked out he thought, as you give so shall you receive<\/em>.\u00a0 His heart was full and he felt uplifted.\u00a0 As soon as he started walking out the door towards his car, Sam couldn’t stop from opening the small box and taking a good bite out of the fresh, moist pecan braid.\u00a0 It was still nice and warm.\u00a0 Sam was in heaven and finished the first one by the time he sat down in his car.\u00a0 The extra one came in handy too later that night.<\/span>\u00a0 Sam thought as delicious as they always taste, this batch may be the best ever because they were baked with so much love and care.<\/span><\/p>\n

blessings,<\/span>
\n \ud83d\ude42 Lee<\/span>
\n The MEGA Coach<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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