Why if the choice is Love does Ra say the choice is service?

[Sena]

It's easy to be only empathetic and caring.  It's also easy to discover the more painful sides of self.  But it is just not so easy to hold both of these together in one being and remain reasonably poised.  You're, evidently, doing the work of learning to hold both your light and dark elements and love self as a whole.  This is a journey, and not a simple, easy one, so prepare yourself to forgive yourself often for not finding your way through this in a month or a year or a decade or a lifetime.
 
On the other hand, it seems that this might be what you chose to do here, and if that was your pre-incarnative choice, then the spiritual resources available to you are powerful.  Of course, for them to become actively available to you is part of the work you are doing.  What is that?  For your helpers to be able to help you more effectively, you must purify your seeking of truth, your seeking of Divine beauty or however you would frame it.  To a purified heart are given gifts of Spirit.
 
So, don't just pack a lunch and expect to get home before nightfall.  Prepare yourself properly for a quest worthy of a lifetime.

   

Sacred Fool, thanks for your insightful comments.