I am…restless. Can’t settle my thoughts or my body. I need to settle though. I need to calm down. God, I just need to hear from You, a bite of daily bread.
You have put yourself on a diet I never called you to.
So many times, you enslave yourself. You are your own taskmaster–more bricks, less straw–and you try to amp up what you think of as your duty, your service, while neglecting to feed your soul. Remember years ago, when you wrote that lyric, Love is Service? That is not all Love is. Love is Sharing. Love is Giving, yes–but also receiving, also allowing the Other the joy of giving. Love is gratefully receiving as well as generously giving. You keep forgetting the balance.
“I have no longer called you servants.” Stop the sentence right there. That blows your idea, Love is Service, right out of the water. What did I say: “I have called you friends.” Why the distinction? Sharing. I went on to say, servants don’t know the master’s business, what the master is up to–but I have shared all from My Father with you. Did you think this was only for a chosen few, some 2,000 years ago? This is for everyone and all time: NOT servants. No Longer Servants. I Am not seeking servants, not calling servants. I Am seeking, and calling, and making Friends. Friends share and confide; they listen and encourage; they counsel; and they rejoice with each other. They have fun together.
Let’s be Friends today. And tomorrow. And then, the day after that. “No longer servants, but friends.”