The world does not see us and value us along with our good efforts. This is obviously perception, an experience of self or ego. When you have “eyes to see and ears to hear” you can use your faculty of spiritual discernment and move your own thoughts and actions above this realm. Here you will see as St. Francis did that giving is receiving rather than sacrifice.
Lord make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred, let me sow love
Where there is injury, pardon
Doubt, faith
Despair, hope
Darkness, light
Sadness, joy
O Divine Master grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console,
To be understood as to understand, to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive.
It is in pardoning that we are pardoned
And it is dying that we are born to eternal life.
Amen
The clear idea here is that we surrender our sense of self and are filled with The One Consciousness and all sense of lack disappears and we are one with all that is, The Fullness of the Earth. Then we wish to share this and in sharing, we receive. In this forgiveness, we are forgiven, in this dying unto ourselves we are born. The Divine Consciousness literally lives and expresses through us rather than us living as our small sense of self.
Let this day be a day of receiving Divinity and sharing It with all who come into your sight.