Monday, April 26, 2010

Servant or To Serve?

I don't know if any of you saw the 2002 movie 'Maid in Manhattan' with Jennifer Lopez.  If not, to give you a  very brief synopsis, she plays a maid for a 5-star New York hotel and has dreams of moving up the corporate ladder and into hotel management.  After being accused of a wrongdoing she is fired.  As she is cleaning out her locker, she is told by the character played by Bob Hoskins that "To serve people takes dignity and intelligence. But remember, they are only people with money. And although we serve them, we are not their servants. What we do does not define who we are. What defines us is how well we rise after falling".

I thought about this quote this morning as I was doing some things that I really didn't care to be doing.  I know that the Universe has me on the right path.  I know that God is exceedingly - abundantly - increasingly - immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine. 

So this morning as I completed these tasks, I made sure to remind myself that I was not a servant, only serving and that even now I am rising after my fall......

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