Ask Before You Help

Recently a friend of mine submitted an article to mething. I immediately removed the article from my site
she wrote about helping out in nature.before anyone had seen it, but it was too late-the
After reading the article I was so excited about howdamage had already been done. It was now personal.
well it was done and the message it conveyed, that IIt's been over a week since the article was published
was inspired to write an article about her. I immediatelyand she has not returned my email or chatted with me.
published her article to my directory as well as theClearly I blew it. After all the articles and books I have
article I wrote about her.written with this one message in it-I did it myself. I
With all the good intentions of helping her I made twocommitted spiritual malpractice. I made a judgment and
major mistakes. First I judged her situation. Over theacted on it, without knowing the intention of the
years she has given selflessly and has received littlesoul-her soul. As the saying goes "The road to Hell is
compensation for her efforts. From what she has toldpaved with good intentions."
me, people seek her advice but are unwilling toBecause we can never know what the true intentions
compensate her for it. Many times she has told meof one's soul is, when we interfere no matter how well
she is just so tired of helping others and not having itintentioned we are, we interrupt a natural process that
returned.can have harmful effects. This is spiritual malpractice.
Knowing this I set out to write my article and directEven if the outcome seems to be more positive on
people to her article so that maybe they would visitthe surface, it may not have been the intention of the
her site and help her. I did this without her knowledgesoul to experience that outcome.
and with the beautiful message of her article stillIt is OK to offer help to someone, but it is not OK to
resonating with me.give it without asking no matter what your intentions
The lesson in her article was very clear-sometimesare. I think this is something we all do from time to time.
when you set out to help, you make things worse!We may never no the after effects of what we have
I apparently misjudged her and her situation. I publisheddone, but we may have delayed a desired result for
the article and uploaded it to my site. While I was doingthe other one's spirit. The very best we can do for
that I was having a chat with her online. I told her aboutanother without their permission is to wish them well.
my article and how it may help her. She read theWe are not interfering with a natural result and we are
article a little bit later and returned an email to me. Shesending positive energy to that person.
was devastated that I would write such an articleSorry my friend and thank you for a lesson well
about her. I had gotten it all wrong and I had hurt her,learned.
and she didn't know how I could have done such a