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

[Sacred Fool]

 
Angel, if you are still following your hijacked thread, here's another take on why there's a repeated focus upon service instead of love in general.  What I extrapolate from this excerpt is that by focusing on service one attains a much higher tuning of self than one might otherwise get because the scope one becomes dialed in to is fully and freely encompassing instead of narrowly focused.  It's maybe a bit of free association to connect these, but you can see if it works for you.

https://llresearch.org/transcripts/issue...draft.aspx

Thus, instead of asking, “How can I get rid of my fear? I must become a more loving person, which means getting rid of my fear, getting rid of my anger” … Instead of that dialogue with fear, when your focus becomes, “How can I express this energy that I have in service to all beings and for the greatest good of all beings?”—that focus allows the experience of fear or anger or jealousy if that is what is present. There is no need to get rid of anything then. If your learning to express your energy more purely involves, at this moment in time, the experience of discomforting physical or emotional stimuli, so be it. You do not have to like that stimulus. Can you simply allow the presence of it and send love to the being that is experiencing it?

 
In a later paragraph love and service are connected.
 

I feel some confusion in all of you. I am going to give one very concrete example.

A being perhaps wants to learn to give its energy with generosity to others, and yet is aware that often when it is asked to give in a material or energy form, there is a contraction, a sense, “What if I need this time or energy or resource?” It may then state an affirmation, “I can be generous,” and try to remind itself, even convince itself to be generous. It may even skillfully note the arising of fear and still say, “I will be generous.” But at some level there is grasping to the generous and aversion to the fear. Instead of making the affirmation, “I will be generous,” which strengthens this grasping and aversion, if the being’s focus becomes, “I will work as lovingly as I can with whatever emotions are present in my experience,” then the intention is very different: not to “fix” but to relate to with kindness.