When we give to others with love or compassion, we not only are helping others, we’re helping ourselves. Every day there are opportunities to be generous with others.
There is a flow between giving and receiving. We often give our time or money as a way of paying forward an expression of gratitude from something received, but there are other ways to give, such as offering encouragement, listening to someone, or performing a random act of kindness.
Sometimes we may feel we’re giving too much or not receiving enough, and this indicates an unbalanced flow. We must be willing to receive; if we don’t accept another’s attempts to give because we may somehow feel we don’t deserve what someone is offering, then we are blocking the flow. Simply saying thank you to a compliment, instead of shrugging it off, is a start.
We each can help one another and improve our communities by keeping the cycle of giving and receiving flowing smoothly.
When you choose to live a generous life, you start to change and so does the world around you. Something incredible happens when giving becomes your own idea, not something you do out of duty or obligation.
Brad Formsma
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