In a conversation with Desmond Tutu, the Dalai Lama once noted that “The more time you spend thinking about yourself, the more suffering you will experience [however] taking care of others, helping others, ultimately is the way to discover your own joy and to have a happy life.” He’s right, isn’t he? When we’re struggling, often our self-preservation instincts have us focusing more on self, when actually it is in thinking about others that we are more likely to find joy.
I met with our pastoral care team this week and someone in the group made exactly this point – many hours of Netflix will make us miserable, but we will find life in caring for others. In our meeting we discussed a number our of our existing and planned caring ministries: hospital visits, the Samaritans meals programme, grief and other support groups, home visits, birthday/anniversary phone calls, helping with transport, friendship groups, pastoral flowers.
If you have some time and are interested to get involved in some way in a caring ministry, please give us a call in the office.
I met with our pastoral care team this week and someone in the group made exactly this point – many hours of Netflix will make us miserable, but we will find life in caring for others. In our meeting we discussed a number our of our existing and planned caring ministries: hospital visits, the Samaritans meals programme, grief and other support groups, home visits, birthday/anniversary phone calls, helping with transport, friendship groups, pastoral flowers.
If you have some time and are interested to get involved in some way in a caring ministry, please give us a call in the office.