Service

I have decided for the hundredth time to reinvent my life. There are a whole slew of behaviors that were spawned by the belief I would never amount to anything, which I have decided to ditch, as they weren't doing me or anyone else any good.

The great good news is that, in this starry-eyed stage of orientation to Mountain View, it seems that this corporation values positive, happy people working in a positive, happy manner. Little I have seen on my first day orienting "on the floor" contradicts that. I have rarely felt so welcomed. So I am determined to turn over a new leaf, that determination starting before I ever started working here.

I like to carry a clipboard at work to keep my papers and thoughts organized. I created a cover sheet for the front [we do, after all, make notes about private information] from an 8 by 11 section of a calendar with a photo of a field of poppies, with a quotation on the front, inserted into a plastic sleeve.

My quote, which involves service:

O Lord my God! Give me Thy grace to serve Thy loved ones, strengthen me in my servitude to Thee, illumine my brow with the light of adoration in Thy court of holiness, and of prayer to Thy kingdom of grandeur. Help me to be selfless at the heavenly entrance to Thy gate, and aid me to be detached from all things within Thy holy precincts. Lord! Give me to drink from the chalice of selflessness; with its robe clothe me and in its ocean immerse me. Make me a as dust in the pathway of Thy loved ones, and grant that I may offer up my soul for the earth ennobled by the footsteps of Thy chosen ones in Thy path, O Lord of Glory in the highest.

~'Abdu'l-Baha