In my post last week, I shared the parable of the ant and a story of a woman who saved her friend’s life by a phone call. I received a number of emails saying how much that post spoke to readers.
Share Your Gifts in Loving Service
I’d like to continue on this theme since people are interested in finding ways to link their life purpose with their work. In my book, Path for Greatness: Work as Spiritual Service, I describe a framework to show how you can offer your gifts in loving service regardless of the kind of work you provide.
Regardless of whether you have a low skilled or high paying job, your job can provide an opportunity to live with purpose and share your gifts. In one of my book tours for Path for Greatness, I met a woman who was a bus driver. She was also a Reiki master. She said she took the job of driving a city bus so she could go around town sharing Reiki energy.
Here’s a link to a video where I share a story of how another bus driver saw her job serving a higher purpose: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq82gcIwqXM
Life Purpose may come unexpectedly
Your life purpose may unfold at one particular place at one particular time to support someone in need.
I met a woman who was a flight attendant in the early 2000’s. One night after her flight had landed and all the crew finished cleaning the cabin, she was the last to leave except the captain. He was finishing his paperwork in the cockpit. She stopped to say goodnight to the captain before going to the hotel for her overnight layover.
He called her into the cockpit saying he needed to talk. She didn’t have anything better to do that night, so she sat down to listen. As the captain unloaded a whole life’s worth of regrets and reflections, she thought perhaps he was going through a divorce or some major life shift. She sensed he had some urgency to ‘get his life right’ or figure out his life in some significant way. After an hour and a half of talking, the captain thanked her for listening. She said she was glad to listen and hoped it helped him. She then left to go to her hotel. That night was Mon. Sept. 10th, 2001. She worked for American Airlines.
The next morning she turned on the TV as she was getting dressed for work. To her horror she saw the burning World Trade Center in NY. She sat down in disbelief. Then the flight number came up showing the plane that had hit the building. It was the same plane that the captain piloted.
Her shock turned to deep sadness as she watched the rest of the morning. She told me that later that week she felt a deep gladness she had been able to help the pilot the night before his death. She felt in some way he had made peace with his life. He apparently had some intuition that he needed to get his life sorted out that night.
You never know when taking a bit of extra time to help a co-worker will make all the difference. You never know when you share your gifts, what impact it will have on someone.
So regardless of the type of work you do, when you take the time to listen, be attentive, or be supportive, you may offer that one thing that your customer or colleague needs to know or hear.
“Always prepare yourself. You never know when you’ll be called to do great things.” Abraham Lincoln
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