Service of Love
Dear Readers,
A
while back, a thought entered my mind about people. I noticed that the people
who loved the most were the people who served others. For weeks, I wondered why
this was the case. It wasn’t until the other day when I found that missing
puzzle piece. I have long said that Love is “Willing the good of the other,”
but it wasn’t until I heard it said as “Love is putting someone else’s needs
before yours” that it made sense. When you put someone else’s needs before your
own, you are serving them. Therefore serving people is an act of growing love.
This epiphany allowed me to put together other puzzles I had pondered.
I
noticed that if you refuse to let someone help you, they will eventually dislike
or even hate you. This is because if you
refuse their service, you refuse their love. You can do favors for them and
that might get them to like having you around, but that alone will not get them
to love you. It is when you serve people you recognize their humanity. You
recognize they have needs, desires, and dreams.
You may have heard that man is
not meant to be alone; that man is a social animal. I’ll go further and say
that it is the true nature of man to love. Consider this, in order for mankind
to continue, both the strong and weak would need to help each other. The strong
must protect and feed the weak while the weak must organize and develop things
for the strong. This is shown in nature as a man must care for his wife while
she carries their future to term. This is why marriage is so important. It is
the bond that keeps a man to fulfill his obligation to support his wife in good
times and bad. It escalates even more when the child is born, and yet I have
seen a change in people as they are now defined by their love for the child and
happy beyond belief.
I knew a girl who got pregnant
in college. She was a cheerful person to begin with, but after she had her
child she was ecstatic and would never give him up. She cared so much for her
son and would comment to me how she didn’t want anything anymore; everything
she bought was for her son and she was happy. That love she had, which showed
in her service to this adorable toddler, was inspiring. It is unfortunate that
is appears to be have been an act of hate that she was murdered a few weeks
ago. I can only hope that the love she had for others would inspire others to
at least help her pretty much orphaned toddler.
In order to be the greatest of
mankind, we must be servants. It is through service that we show and grow our
love for others. People are not toys to just give us some pleasure or
accomplish a goal. They have needs and desires; they live. They are our equals.
It is through service and love for each other that we can heal the scars of our
world and progress in virtue.
With
love,
N.
D. Moharo
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