Rescue, Serve, and Save
I realize that with each of these journal/blog post assignments, there are questions that I’m supposed to answer. But I don’t know if I have ever done that. I’ve enjoyed the freedom to really treat this as a journal and write about what has had an impact on me that week.
This week is no different. There are questions to answer, but the answers to them aren’t the things that I have been thinking most about. I often think that whatever comes back to my mind over and over is what I need to either work on, be grateful for, or share with someone.
It was the theme of rescuing, serving, and in some ways saving our fellowman that resonated with me this week. In our day-to-day living and in our business pursuits we have an impact on countless people. We are charged with the care of each other, and I think we can all do a little better. I know I certainly can.
I work in an alternative health care environment providing massage therapy services. I love helping people take care of themselves. I have a chance to really help individuals live a healthier and happier life. Educating my clients is something that I value, and am eager to help them learn how to take care of themselves when they are off my table.
Outside of the clinic, there are many ways to take care of others. Today, I gave away old rocks from my yard! Of all the things to do for another person, I gave them rocks. But who cares? It is what they wanted to landscape their new house with, and I was happy to get rid of them. Whether it is great or small, everyone needs to be served in some capacity.
I think there is a greater dependence on each other than we realize. I hope that as I work on building and keeping relationships, and even with the strangers I interact with, I can find ways, with the Lord’s help, to find ways to serve.
Here is some food for thought from someone who lost everything in Darfur:
“‘I will trust in the Lord. I will follow His example. I will walk in his footsteps, and make my own as well. My name is Anyonya. I live in Darfur, and this is my life.’
“As I have read and reread this letter, it has caused me great pause in my life. I believe it profoundly underscores the Lord’s solemn mandate in this day and hour to consecrate our means from business to rescue our brothers and sisters. As the Lord has said, it is our imperative duty that we go to God, to angels with whom we should be brought to stand, and to ourselves, and to our wives and children and all those who have been made to bow down with grief, sorrow and care under the most damning hand of murder, tyranny and oppression. That we should waste and wear our lives in bringing to light all of the hidden things of darkness. These should be attended to with great earnestness.” – Elder Robert Gay
I may not meet anyone who needs physical saving, but I can do my best to rescue and save the downtrodden and depressed.