This is an inspiring guide for me, especially currently when my daily email and letter mail are full of appeals for financial donations to causes and ideas I may believe in but cannot often contribute to, and I also see people with hand-lettered signs begging for help on many street corners in my city.
Now? Fresh inspiration for whatever sharing I can do, including prayers. Right on!
Yes! What blesses one blesses All. The true feeling of Love blesses us in the giving even as it blesses the receiver in the getting… sometimes even more so.
Thank you, Evan, and all who give through comments and through prayers on this very giving site.
A lesson I learned, from my own experience, is to give the very best you can give. I mean pay attention to the quality of what you give. Once I belonged to an organization of women helping women. We helped each other in very difficult circumstances. I went to one of the weekly meetings and in front of the conference room,where we met , was piles of clothes , shoes and a variety of items, It was piles of JUNK, other peoples junk. It was humiliating and spoke volumes of the level of thoughtlessness that went into this. We did form a group of women to sort, wash, mend and discarded what wasn’t usable.Then posted very large poster board signs and notices in our news letters that we were not “junk collectors” just having a rough time and needing some help sometimes. Later several women stated this one act did more to raise their awareness of themselves as having innate value than anything else we did. Our setting standards about what quality of things we would RECEIVE played out in other areas of their life and helped them establish a deeper understanding that God had not created them to be junk collectors. They were precious and worthy of “good.”
Thanks Charla for your comment which reminds me on what a friend of mine and I did when my cousin suddenly passed on. We took all clothes the cousin had, and it was very very much – including featherbeds, even the mattresses, towels and even dolls and cuddly toys – to a gathering place (where it looked like on the above foto) for refugees, which came into Germany en masse at that time. Each time my car was full to the brim, and we did that each day for about two weeks or more. My friend and I were very happy we could give these clothes, which looked like unused, to those people in great need!
Often giving in a reasonable way is more joyful than receiving. 🙂
Thank you Evan, that you let us ponder this topic which through all comments hereto is a blessing for us all!
…from the Bible: “freely ye have received, freely give” Matthew 10,
Good lesson, not to wait, start now, let (allow) the receiving (of all good) begin.
I often tell people that if they have no money to give or physical things to contribute , give hope. Give smiles. Give kindness. Give inspiration. It’s amazing how one’s life can be a lifted by such giving.
I often tell people that if they have no money to give or physical things to contribute, give hope. Give smiles. Give kindness. Give inspiration. It’s amazing how one’s life can be up lifted by such giving.
I LOOOVE this simple but profound thought!
Perfect! Giving is part of our divine nature as the image and likeness of God. It demonstrates our sonship and (daughtership) <3 <3
Thank you so much for sharing and caring.
Yes!
This is an inspiring guide for me, especially currently when my daily email and letter mail are full of appeals for financial donations to causes and ideas I may believe in but cannot often contribute to, and I also see people with hand-lettered signs begging for help on many street corners in my city.
Now? Fresh inspiration for whatever sharing I can do, including prayers. Right on!
Thank you so much, Evan!
Yes! What blesses one blesses All. The true feeling of Love blesses us in the giving even as it blesses the receiver in the getting… sometimes even more so.
Thank you, Evan, and all who give through comments and through prayers on this very giving site.
A lesson I learned, from my own experience, is to give the very best you can give. I mean pay attention to the quality of what you give. Once I belonged to an organization of women helping women. We helped each other in very difficult circumstances. I went to one of the weekly meetings and in front of the conference room,where we met , was piles of clothes , shoes and a variety of items, It was piles of JUNK, other peoples junk. It was humiliating and spoke volumes of the level of thoughtlessness that went into this. We did form a group of women to sort, wash, mend and discarded what wasn’t usable.Then posted very large poster board signs and notices in our news letters that we were not “junk collectors” just having a rough time and needing some help sometimes. Later several women stated this one act did more to raise their awareness of themselves as having innate value than anything else we did. Our setting standards about what quality of things we would RECEIVE played out in other areas of their life and helped them establish a deeper understanding that God had not created them to be junk collectors. They were precious and worthy of “good.”
Good job! Sounds like raising awareness helped everyone. (=
Thanks Charla for your comment which reminds me on what a friend of mine and I did when my cousin suddenly passed on. We took all clothes the cousin had, and it was very very much – including featherbeds, even the mattresses, towels and even dolls and cuddly toys – to a gathering place (where it looked like on the above foto) for refugees, which came into Germany en masse at that time. Each time my car was full to the brim, and we did that each day for about two weeks or more. My friend and I were very happy we could give these clothes, which looked like unused, to those people in great need!
Often giving in a reasonable way is more joyful than receiving. 🙂
Thank you Evan, that you let us ponder this topic which through all comments hereto is a blessing for us all!
…from the Bible: “freely ye have received, freely give” Matthew 10,
Good lesson, not to wait, start now, let (allow) the receiving (of all good) begin.
Thank you all for reflecting love, love, love!
It is a wonderful lesson to give thoughtfully. The opportunities are endless.
I often tell people that if they have no money to give or physical things to contribute , give hope. Give smiles. Give kindness. Give inspiration. It’s amazing how one’s life can be a lifted by such giving.
I often tell people that if they have no money to give or physical things to contribute, give hope. Give smiles. Give kindness. Give inspiration. It’s amazing how one’s life can be up lifted by such giving.