You may feel like taking care of your friends and family today. Your care-taking mood could be the result of your need to protect others. It is important to remember that giving help is valuable only when help is needed. Today you might want to listen carefully to the needs of your loved ones to see what they really want from you. It may be that they simply would like you to spend time with them listening to their concerns, or they might want you to support them in a deeper way by helping them through a difficult transition. You may want to focus on keeping their wishes in mind and not allowing your desire to govern your actions. You may find that you give the best support for your loved ones when you honor their requests.
Caring for others means that we respect what they need in the moment. So often our helping instincts arise and we want to give of ourselves to other people. But if they do not want our assistance or are not in a receptive mood, we may then feel resentment toward them because our support is not appreciated. When we help out of a genuine desire to meet another person's request for assistance, we provide a greater service to others. We offer them our love because they have asked us, not because helping others fills our own need to be needed. Learn to give to your loved ones today because they asked, and your support will mean the world to them.
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