I'm thinking today about giving. Likely this post will not give you a complete picture of my thoughts since I am abbreviating them. But perhaps it will spark your own thought process.

When people ask me for something how willing am I to give? Requests for help, for my time or energy, for a 'thing' be it money or something else come up regularly. I'm not talking so much about the various organizations trying to raise money for this or the other project, but people's requests, the people around me, the people I run into in my normal circle of living. Especially when it is in my power to give, I would like to be one who gives easily, freely. When it is a sacrifice for me to give, even then I still think I should and I want that to be something that defines who I am. Joyfully.

I have lots of room to grow in this area but I don't want to forget my thoughts of today. I don't want to slip again into my habitual thoughts just because they're the habits I'm used to. I want to begin, to continue, the difficult task of creating new habits.

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words

Why is it so easy to say words but so often difficult to say what we mean?

A night of unrest, pain. The speaker unaware of the result of words spoken. The words, in fact, heard completely incorrectly...added to negatively. Morning brings pain still, anger, hurt. Fortunately there also follows reconciliation.

I catch my breath at the ease with which the pain could have festered and grown into hate.