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Did You Get Your Slice of the Pie?
Did You Get Your Slice of the Pie, habits of generosity, practice of giving, fundamental need, abundance
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Did You Get Your Slice of the Pie?
Think back to your childhood. If you are like me, you had brothers and sisters and when dessert was apple pie, did you wonder if there would be any left for you to have a slice? Maybe you hoped you would get the biggest piece or at least you want your fair share. It seems to me with every piece of pie cut and passed around, the piece got smaller.
There is only so much to go around. If you don’t get yours, you won’t get any! If we view the world and our relationships and what is available through this lens, we may begin to treat everyone and everything as if there is not enough to go around.
Some things like yummy dessert and prices may be fixed, but other things like love and friendship and service to others are without limits – you could say they are infinite. Regardless of how you understand life, if we believe there is not enough to go around, then we will be unwilling to love to the fullest or give to the fullest, or even live to our fullest capacity. It’s just the way the world goes around. If we are greedy and selfish, we will always believe someone owes us something and that there is not enough to go around so we best get ours while we can.
Perhaps it is time we change our way of thinking and create new habits of generosity. I grew up in a large family that had very little to go around and there was no room for extra fringe benefits. Getting my slice of the pie seemed important but I have learned that whether or not I get pie really is not important when put into the perspective of whether or not I have been loving and kind and willing to share what I have with others – particularly with those who have greater needs than I have needs.
Just thinking about how much abundance most of us have in comparison to what the majority of humanity has at their disposal. The practice of giving is a fundamental need for each of us. What others perceive as their needs may not be what we perceive they need. It reminds me of the time in one of the communities I was a pastor in, some of the folks decided they would gather clothing to give to the poor in our neighborhood and surrounding area. I was pretty much thrilled over this new “mission” mind-set of my flock. Well thrilled until we began to receive donated clothing that had the buttons cut off of the shirts. I imagine folks thought they had a need for the buttons and forgot to think beyond their own needs and think of the needs of those who would be recipients of the clothing. Go figure! Anyway, it paints a broad swash of color over the canvas of giving and generosity.
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 | | Thank you, Kenneth. I appreciate your comments - go IBO Spirit |
| | |  | | Thanks for the blog. Excellent writing. GO IBO! and thanks for the praise at IBO. |
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