Universal theme overview
Service is a child in the Universal themes series and is a member of the Big ideas theme family.
Service is support work done for another individual, group, cause or organization. The help is given to show respect or contribute to a greater cause.
Big ideas
- Immediate happiness is not the goal of life.
- Everything needs attention to keep thriving.
- If you can, give the assistance. You’ll never know how important it was.
- The best way to learn is to teach.
- Choose a worthy cause for your time and efforts.
Service key concepts
- Charity is giving love, benevolence and goodwill to others, including acts of kindness to those in troubled circumstances or a willingness to judge another favorably.
- Devotion is the act of setting something apart as a duty and special class, for the purpose of giving special attention and respect to it.
- Generosity is giving freely of material and spiritual abundance to others, spreading kindness through offering what is needed to others.
- Maintenance is supporting and protecting something so that it may continue to remain useful and in good condition.
- A profit is an advantageous gain where you end up better off than where you began.
- When you respect something, you are giving it special attention; you are giving something or someone your attention. You are affirming its relative importance.
- Selfishness is concern only for yourself, without any concern for others.
- To support something is to prop it up, assisting with encouragement or counsel.
- A teacher is someone who gives instruction to others based on experience or example.
- A vocation is a regular occupation or profession, for which you have special interest or qualifications. Often people earn their living from their vocation.
Archetypes
animals: donkey, llama
birds: partridge, pelican
flowers: hyssop, poppy
roles: assistant, elder, handmaiden, mentor, politician, servant, soldier, teacher
settings: farm