dailydatewithgod

We have entered the season of giving.  The folks from Salvation Army are outside the stores with their buckets and their bells.  Emails and letters are coming in from non-profits requesting donations. We are out and about looking for gifts to give loved ones and coworkers for Christmas.  Sometimes I have to stop and wonder why all the hustle and bustle over this one day?  Don’t get me wrong, I think it is a wonderful season and a great opportunity for me to focus on how I can give and do for others and not focus on what I am going to get.  I find that the more energy I can spend focusing on others, the less time I have to create stories and opinions about my life and just live it.  Generousityt to me is something beyond giving. It is the intention of the spirit.  More than just the giving of a gift-whether it be a physical gift or of time.  Generosity is about giving past what I believe that I am capable.  It is a trust that God will work through me in giving.  It extends to my attitude towards others–not just what I do in action.  You will probably see me write this often, but life is all about what we make it mean.  I remember reading a quote (on a dentist’s office wall of all places), “Life is 10% of what happens to you and 90% of how you react to it.” Even at a young age there was something about it that made sense to me.  Over the years that concept stuck with me and when I really began to expand my spiritual growth Isaw how true it.  There is what happens (10%) and there is what I make it mean (90%).  I experienced this fully about 10 years ago when I did an inventory of my life and looked at the attributes and attitudes I had been operating from most of my life.  It further solidified the understanding about five or six years ago when I attended the Landmark Education Forum. (I highly recommend Landmark for anyone–incredible experience!)  As I look towards my day today, I am moved to draw close into the arms of my Creator who is full of all things, so generous with the beauty of life and connect to the fact that I am part of that.  From that space I can then be generous with myself and others as I go through my day.  This may mean giving someone the opportunity to go ahead of me in line, cutting someone some slack at work who hasn’t completed something I am waiting on, or not making meaning about an interaction with a friend or coworker.  My prayer for you today is that you recognize the generosity (God) that lives within you.  That from that space within you, you can do things you didn’t think were possible, you can do more than just give you can have an attitude of giving from the heart in big and small ways.  May it a great one.  Peace~Colleen

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