If You Ever Need a Helping Hand – Daily Meditation 2.26.24

Today’s Quotation if You Need a Helping Hand: 

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm. . . As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands.  One is for helping yourself, the other for helping others.- Audrey Hepburn

Today’s Meditation if You Need a Helping Hand:

How can you help someone else today?  With an encouraging word?  A smile at the right moment?  Helping out with an important task?  We’ve been given plenty of ways to help other human beings experience life much more positively.

How can you help yourself out today?  By taking a few minutes to be alone in silence and center yourself?  By giving yourself a small, loving gift?  By taking care of some task, you’ve needed to do for a while?

Life is about helping.  Usually, when we help ourselves, we help others because we’re much better prepared to be of use to others when our yard has been cleaned.  We can give more easily when our own needs have been met.

But we often get so caught up in “making a living” that we don’t realize how difficult it is for ourselves to help others.  We don’t realize how much time we’re devoting to work that makes profits for other people, but that doesn’t really add anything of true essence to someone else’s life, as a deep conversation or simply sharing time with them would.  We get lost in getting and lose touch with giving.

Two hands?  Help yourself.  Help someone else when you’re sure they need it and will appreciate it.  This is the essence of life.

Questions to ponder if You Need a Helping Hand:

1.  In what ways can you help others today?  Whom can you help?

2.  How can you help yourself today?  What needs should be met?

3.  What kinds of things keep you from helping?  What might you do to work around them?

For further thought, if You Need a Helping Hand:

If I think of myself as loved, I can love and accept others.  If I see myself as forgiven, I can be gracious toward others.  If I see myself as powerful, I can do what I know is right.  If I see myself as full, I can give myself freely to others. -Kathy Peel

If you missed our last Daily Meditation, it is here.