Give everything you can to anyone you can.

Give everything you can to anyone you can.

My Great Grandmother Muriel had a wonderful friend who would visit her once a week.She would bring her books to read and sometimes a meal she cooked.We used to joke in the family that this woman was an angel.She had the patience of a saint.She was always there.When my Great Grandmother died, she continued her friendship with my family, now becoming a closer friend to my Grandmother Joyce. When my husband deployed with the military and we relocated for a few years to a new state. The friend was always there for my Grandmother. She made a large difference in both of my Grandmothers lives.Now, both of my grandmothers have passed on. I am very thankful for their friend and her great example. Because of her kindness, I was inspired to become a friend to shut in seniors in my area. That is now how I give to others.This is what I have come to believe.

I think that giving means compassion and love and reaching out to people that don't have as much as you do. Not only giving financially but giving with your time. Your time and presence are worth almost double.It is so easy to just go to work and get caught up in your own world. Getting involved in your community is helps to keep perspective. Helping others humbles you a little bit. It helps you understand your place in the grand scheme of things.Helping in my community has helped me to appreciate what I have, it has also taught me how happy people can be without things that I think of as necessities. I am not a rich person, I am not anymore able to help than anyone else. In fact, I am probably less able .I volunteer simply because I want to help others when they are struggling.

Giving is an educational experience, it can be a social experience as well. Yes, it can even be fun.Your environment limits your perspective, but helping others expands it. It is important to recognize that people are just people, and that we need to share our knowledge and ideas with each other. Giving is just as much about changing yourself at the same time you're affecting someone else's life. For me, is a way of showing gratitude for all those things that I do have.

There is a certain kind of simplicity in life that you get from giving yourself to others. Your world gets bigger and brighter each time you help someone else.Try it and see.

There are people out there you can give something to.
There are hundreds of excuses not to.