The book for this project is called: My Cause Miracles By: Gabrielle Bernstein
This is a 40-Day Guidebook Of Subtle Shifts For Radical Change And Unlimited Happiness.
EXERCISE DAY 38
This evening ‘s exercise is more action oriented than usual. Tonight you are going to step outside your comfort zone and do something kind for someone else. The action you take this evening will be uncomfortable for your ego. The ego had a strong need to focus on serving yourself first, for fear that there won’t be enough love to go around. The Course teaches the exact opposite mentality: that when we sever others, we greatly serve ourselves. Tonight you will experience the miracle of what true altruism can bring.
Take a moment to think of someone in need. It can be someone you know directly or someone you don’t know at all.
Next, read the Saint Francis prayer that follows here, (Throughout my spiritual journey I’ve often turned to this prayer for a powerful reminder to shift into a we mentality.) After reading the prayer, sit in stillness briefly, then allow the accompanying service meditation to guide and take loving action toward being of service to someone else.
The Saint Francis prayer is one of the greatest messages for service and interconnectedness. Enjoy.
PRAYER OF SAINT FRANCIS
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace,
Where there is hatred, let me sow love,
Where there is injury, pardon.
Where there is doubt, faith,
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light.
Where there is sadness, joy.
Grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console: to be understood, as to understand: to be loved, as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to Eternal Life.
Amen.
SERVICE MEDITATION
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