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Monday, September 28, 2009

To Be A Giver

Generosity is humanly within everyone's capability.
"To give is far better a reward than to receive, for to give is sacrificial, depleting and denying self, but it also grows us as human beings"
What is pleasure in giving, what is it to give selflessly, to bestow upon another without reason or question? I don't know what it is! It just is to me. To not give is foreign, selfishness is not godly but devilish. To be self centred bears no reward but to put others first and to be the focus of your attention brings pleasure to the heart of a man. Maybe this attribute of mankind has been destroyed over centuries with famine and wars and death for lands along with the selfish pursuit of great wealth, but the impervious quest of man is to share his joy and prosperity with others and to give out of his abundance.
The Bible says; "the Father in Heaven is the giver of every good gift" I'd like to think that I am rather like him, to willingly contribute to another without expectation of something in return brings endless warmth and satisfaction to who I am. To see the expressions of unbelief or relief and the manifestations of joy in the glow of the revelation that a gift is unwarranted and given out of selflessness to bless and to be enjoyed, is reward enough for me.
To watch another persons adoration of a gift is gratuitous, simplistic and adds new dimension to a life which sometimes was not existent prior.
Indulgences of the heart! to lavish a selfless act spontaneously upon another brings the purest exhilaration and pleasure to both the giver and the recipient. A heart overtaken with unanticipated gratitude is pure delight to witness, to the benefactor delighting in the gift is a given and contemplation of the giver is not always present, but for the giver the reward lays in the sharing of what one has and to see the recipients final acceptance. The extension of self, the growth of godliness what else can be the reason to cast your treasures to another but simply to enhance and enrich someone else's life. To restore faith in human kindness and decency to prefer another and to humbly display a thought towards anyone other than self is to enrich and powerfully exhort without malice,without selfish ambition and or jealousy. You give not out of your abundance but willingly from the heart, its an attitude. To give freely out of your abundance or lack is not a measured choice but rather a willing act.
"Generosity is not a matter of wealth but simply an unbiased, impartial and sincere expression of the heart"
Rinaldo

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