“Serve Others.”

H,

This common mantra that rings through all of meaning; serve others.  It is at the root of any belief system that lasts. It has a certain mass appeal because we all know there is some axiomatic aspect to it. It has a certain logic to it that is in tune with all our souls. We know selfishness does no good. We even know that the selfishness that masquerades as selflessness is facile. At worst, we seek to balance the idea of giving, not to kill it.

Christianity frames it differently. The other person represents something deeper than just fodder for our moral stance. We are not giving to that faceless other as much as we are giving to our neighbours, our friends, our ‘enemies’ and the people in our way. We are not doing this for the innate value, though that may be good enough, but as part of the reawakening of our souls. We are in the process of becoming like God. Loving others, seeking their good and trying not to hurt them, as a start, is just the beginner’s class of the divine.