Something we can all take pride in
Posted on Mar 2nd, 2006
by 
Rob
Rob
It's a fine line to walk between knowing we're talented and being prideful about it. It would seem that the key is to know why we're so skilled; the purpose that those skills serve. I'm a decent writer, painter, athlete, scientist, planner, counsellor, animator, musician, speaker, listener, caretaker, student, etc. None of it matters if those skills aren't being used to serve God though. Today I'm called to be a decent chef, and tomorrow, maybe a decent fisherman. Later, possibly an actor or a weather man. At some point, a lawyer... Who we are is not what we do. The satisfaction is in service to the greater good in this very instant; service in the Now. God may enlist our skills as a horrible nintendo player, better known to Him as a self esteem builder for the little cousin or niece who takes great pride in being able to show someone how to drive Mario around the race track. What we do is all just the unfolding of potentiality... Who we are transcends that...and there needn't be any regrets regarding this fact. Why say 'I could have been ______' when what you are is so essential? Love and Light, -Rob
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January 2008 
Its funny you bring up this topic. For a segment of my life I was proud of what I knew, where I studied, etc.
Then I opened my mind to an enormous degree and that all flipped - I became insecure. I stopped developing myself because of my sense of lacking.
Now I am in the middle. It all makes sense, looking back that I had to go through the hells of my own mind to come to the midpoint.
What is servitude to God tho? When I think of serving God I think of serving my fellow man, or being positive in the face of negativity, creating great projects to help others, etc. I imagine that’s what you speak of (?)
Yep!
There’s a prayer that I’ve been using since I was 17…
“God, I pray that I’m living your will whether I know what that is or not”
Knowing how we’re serving can just be a vanity sometimes.
Just trust that with God, you’re in use every moment of every day…so have presence in those moments and it’s all good.
-Rob
But then there is the idea of ego - the “slightly” impenetrable wall that makes KKK lynch people in the name of God…and well, countless other in-the-name-of-God acts.
Im saying that sometimes you imagine things that are your mind, and not God.
Good points…
I guess it’s a fine line between having God work ‘through’ you, and having things done ‘by’ you in the name of God.
Faith and surrender seem to work though….as a pair I mean. It’s not my place to go judging anybody else’s actions…just to live with faith, and surrender every moment to the joyful service of divinity.
-Rob