When was the last time someone just gave you something, because they had it to give and they wanted you to have it? It could’ve been your kid’s cookie, soggy but still sweet. It could’ve been tickets to a concert. Or a work of art.
When was the last time you gave something to someone out of the goodness of your heart and the overflow of your life?
I’m not a giver. Well, not in the traditional sense. I give time, although I am rather greedy with mine. I budget it carefully. And it goes out, in various stages, to various people and places. But I want to give more. I want to give out of other areas of my life as well.
So I’m asking myself what I have to give. And I’m trying to be really really honest.
One thing that has recently resurfaced is “my story”–in a few surprising forms. But people are poking around in my life in search of answers in their own lives. I may not have all the answers, but I do have my own experience. So I am giving that.
But what else? What else have I been given in surplus so I can give it to someone else? That is the question I have devoted to today. But not just for me. For you too.
What do you have to give? Be honest. Be real. Toss “humility” out the window, because that’s not what this is about. This is about locating the things of value in your life that are there for the sake of someone else. What’s there? What do you have to give?
