Service to loved ones is service to God

Servitude to God lies in servitude to the friends

"Servitude to God lieth in servitude to the friends. One must be the essence of humility and the embodiment of meekness. One must become evanescence itself and be healed of every disease of the self, in order to become worthy of thraldom to the Threshold of the Almighty."

(From a Tablet of 'Abdu’l-Bahá—translated from the Persian; in Give Me Thy Grace to Serve Thy Loved Ones, no. 8)