This Giving Thing - How to Increase by Giving Away

One of the most fascinating secrets about attracting prosperity and abundance into our lives is that the more we share what we have and give away freely, the more we get. The practice of giving has been one that has brought ultimate success to individuals and nations that have done it. The early Chinese, Romans, Egyptians, Persians and others have been among those who have deliberately used this success principle and prospered greatly by it.

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.- Winston Churchill

Reading Catherine Ponder's book The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity has brought this home again to me. And this is particularly pertinent at this time of the year when many of us turn our thoughts to the giving and receiving of gifts.

I have to confess that I have had a particular loathing for what I have regarded as an annual wastefest at Christmas time and as a consequence, I have gone out grudingly and through gritted teeth to brave the crowds going crazy in gay abandon. Its not been an easy journey this one but as I have become aware of the significance of giving with an open heart, to people I really want to give to, its made it easier to give with love rather than with resentment.

Life is an echo -- what you send out comes back.- Unknown

Ten has for many thousands of years been regarded as the magic number of increase so giving or 'tithing' a tenth of your income has been an accepted practice for increasing one's own prosperity for many peoples of many ages in human history. That giving has to be carried out in a certain way, consistently and systematically, giving not the last and least, but the first and best.

Catherine Ponder describes many biblical references including Abraham, Moses, Jacob, Jesus and Paul who all held, practsed and profitted by this ancient secret principle. "The tithe of all things brought they in abundance...and laid them by heaps at the altar." (Chronicles 31:5,6) She links prosperity to knowing God as the Source of all supply and that without a spiritual dimension to giving there can never really be true peace of mind and health of body as well as financial prosperity in accordance with the meaning of the word 'wealth' meaning "well being" and "wholeness."

This gives an added dimension to the whole concept of giving and receiving this Christmas or indeed at other celebratory times religious or not - that we give not out of obligation and with resentment, but with a 'free' heart and that the giving is done with love.

Indeed this applies even to something like paying a bill and as I have started to develop a different consciousness about what I give out coming back to me, I choose to give with an open heart and with truely my best wishes. Including the taxman or the checkout at the supermarket.

Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.- Oprah Winfrey

Blessings for today

1 I am grateful that I am able to share with others whatever I have.

2. Iappreciate the many gifts I have been given - from the rain that keeps the earth alive to the more personal items.

3.One of the most precious gifts I have ever been given is my son and I am blessed.

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