Of Service

Published On: March 3, 2015

Are you feeling frustration with a friend or
partner?  Why is that?  It is because you perceive something relative
to your own thoughts or actions which are different and you judge them as
lesser or wrong.  And what happens
next?  You perceive a better way and you
entertain thoughts of how you could or should change the other.  For some reason—and there may be many—your friend
does not change.  The reasons why matter not.  What matters is that you, my friend,
experience frustration rather than peace. 
Is it your place to change or in some perceived way improve them? 

If you are less than peaceful over your friend’s
situation, then the place to focus your attention is on yourself.  Even if your friend has asked for help or
asked to be changed, if you are feeling frustration, your friend is still in
your life for a reason:  to teach
you. 
Peace and unconditional love.  These are the qualities of higher
consciousness.  If you are not
experiencing these, then focus not on changing your friend, but on changing
yourself.  You can stay with your friend
or walk away.  Whichever you choose, if
you do so with peace and with unconditional love, then the relationship has
been of service.