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My First Tangible Effort to Increase my Generosity – GiveWithJoy.org
At the beginning of the year, I actually made a New Year’s Resolution . This was a big deal for me since I literally can not remember the last year that I did the resolution thing. My resolution was to work on being more generous . Leslie from Spilling Buckets made a comment on that post about how she was interested in seeing how I was going to implement that resolution. It was an excellent point to raise because I had no idea how I was actually going to follow through on that (other than reminding myself over and over to be generous).
I feel like I’ve actually started to experience a bit of success increasing my generosity. I do feel that I have been more generous lately, but unfortunately I still need to make a concerted effort to do so. I’d really like to internalize this characteristic and make it a more natural expression of who I am rather than something I have to force myself to do.
So I have finally found a method that I hope will start moving me in the right direction. I heard on the local Christian radio station to which I sometimes listen (when I’m not listening to my fancy new iPhone) an ad for the "40 Day Journey to Generosity." My first reaction was, "hmmm, that’s interesting." That was quickly followed by, "Hey! Wait a second! They said ‘generosity’ – I need to check that site out."
So, I did and I signed up for GiveWithJoy.org’s 40 Day Journey to Generosity. It is a daily devotional (sorry, "eDevotional") that is mailed out to you via email. Today was day 1 – so I’m on my way to generosity! The devotional lists a number of scripture references as well as some key takeaways, a 1 minute true story, a cartoon-of-the-day, and some additional aricles and worksheets.
I can’t really endorse this thing yet as I’ve just started it this morning and I don’t really know much about the site or its owner (Dr. Brian Kluth). But if you’d like to take the journey with me, sign up at the website and send me an email if you want to discuss anything that you’ve read on any particular day. If I find out this is some kooky thing, then I’ll be sure to disclose that in a future post!
The focus of today was "God is the Owner of everything." The purpose is to get back to basics and ground yourself in the fact that everything we "have" is actually owned by God and has been given to us by Him. One of the takeaways: "When we give to God, we are just taking our hands off what already belongs to Him." Good truth to remember there…so far so good!
Has anyone out there heard of this site or its owner? Is anyone else on the Journey to Generosity?
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That sounds like a great program! I look forward to following your progress with it.
We’ve been trying to be more generous as well, even if just “smaller” things. Yesterday our local FD was doing a “Fill the Boot” drive, and Ryan took his last $3 cash from his wallet to donate. Every little bit helps…
P.S. I haven’t seen you on plurk in a while…. you still use it?
@Leslie – I agree, every little bit helps and every little bit gets you closer to internalizing generosity and making it more natural.
I actually have not visited plurk in a while – I think I have given up on it. For a while, I couldn’t find any time to do any social networking and have finally gotten back to at least interacting on Twitter. I think I still like plurk better than twitter but all the available apps and larger user-base have convinced me to spend my limited time on twitter. Do you have a twitter account?
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Yep, I’m on twitter occasionally at L_buckets.
@Leslie´s latest blog post…New Member of CMN: Please welcome Financial Nut!
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