The SACRED act of being in service
May 22, 2026
As a psychologist, I worked in the environment of helping others. My professional training and early years and cultural conditioning, taught my mind that fixing others was the task. Pilgrimage has forced me to unlearn all of those beliefs, which are constructs of the ego, and shaped me into understanding that serving is different from helping or fixing.
Helping is based on inequality. Not a relationship between equals. Helping incurs debt.
Fixing suggests that I perceive others as broken, and their brokenness requires me to act.
Service is a relationship between equals. The wholeness in you is the same as the wholeness in me. It is an experience of mystery. Service work is the work of our soul.
Service rests on the premise that the nature of life is sacred, that life is a holy mystery which has an unknown purpose. When we serve, we know that we belong to life and to that purpose.
Being in service is an act of grace and gratitude. It is also the joyful expression of our highest selves. Pilgrimage can reconnect us with our life mission, and the inevitable bliss which follows.
On my first pilgrimage I was reconnected with my joy in singing, my facility to laugh heartily and merrily, and my fluency in French and Spanish. All of these God given gifts, I now use in service to other pilgrims, to inspire their own path to finding their purpose. I can attest to this being a magical, mysterious and miraculous journey which is sacred.
Julia.🎼💃😂🦋
