Helping Hands

It's good sometimes to take a step back from our own purpose to help others. It's easy to be consumed by the responsibilities we have to ourselves; and yet there is little greater thing we can do for our own cause than to serve someone else's.
We are capable of making a difference. It may seem sometimes that we can only accomplish so much; and yet what may seem a small or insignificant gesture of goodwill can have a tremendous impact on another person. It is often not the act its self that is significant but the demonstration of compassion. When you show someone else you care you bring them happiness. This is a wonderful gift to bear.
I have in a frame a quote from Ralph Waldo Emerson. It says something along the lines that you can not help someone else without helping yourself. I think this is so. And I believe that when we help another person we remind ourselves of something deep down inside that unites everyone. When we can see clearly that we are not alone we can know we have a purpose.