What are you worth?
In restaurants today, there are levels of employment which determine the beliefs of all employees. Are you a server? What do you serve? How do you serve? Do I need to tell you that your service is lacking? Do YOU know that your service is lacking? Are you a busser? Have you served your server? Have you served the host? Have you served the manager? Do you know that you have served?
Wait a minute – are we talking about a restaurant that serves great Italian food or a restaurant that serves our beliefs of caring, helpfulness, sacrifice, and just plain love for our fellow brother and sister? Are we alone in our thoughts or are we only concentrating on ourselves rather than others? Are we so wrapped up in the moment that we forget that our sole purpose is in the helping of others. What do you believe about yourself, your work, your family, your friends, your thoughts. Are you in charge of your destiny? Are you it?
Thomas Hardy tells us about “The chronic melancholy which is taking hold of the civilized races with the decline of belief in a beneficent power.”
We are all employees at one time or the other and our reactions to all situations is determined by our beliefs. In the work environment, is your staff truly engaged in service to others, above all else? Did you hire the right people? Are you training in the correct manner with selflessness as the main ingredient? Do you believe these things or are you giving lip service? In this Restaurant of Life shouldn’t you believe as John Burroughs has told us that “It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.”
Wouldn’t you like to remove the dirty dishes from the table and replace with a clean setting?
You can.
Beliefs are experiences in life that are explained to us by persons whose life experiences formed their beliefs. Are these beliefs prejudicial? Are they true? Are they false? Are they good? Are they bad? Are they cruel? Are they kind? Do you have doubts? Do you have definite affirmations? Are they tested? In the gospel of Mark we read the great line…..”I believe, help my unbelief.”
In the restaurant of life, have you been called to be a server? Do you believe that those above you and below you in age have something to give? What can you learn? How can you strengthen your beliefs? As you setup for the day, are you preparing for the best to happen? As the day progresses, are you cleaning up injustice, prejudice, distrust, unfaithfulness, lies, even an enormous ego? Are you replacing these things with truth, loving kindness, giving hearts, forgiveness and servanthood?
It is so hard to say I’m sorry isn’t it? One of our early beliefs seems to be to let the other person engage in this rhetoric. What did you learn at an early age?
Upon His resurrection, my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ said these words,”Oh how foolish you are, and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared.” You see, even in those times, beliefs were scattered towards truth and untruth. For thousands of years, we have access to knowledge and it is our decision to believe or not to believe the best in everyone. Can you with gentleness in your heart, change your beliefs to become a servant of all?
Now, that really is a discussion for another day.
Blessings.