The Art that is Being Gracious and It’s Benefits
“You often say, ‘I would give, but only to the deserving.’ The trees in your orchard say not so, nor the flocks in your pasture. They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish. Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and his nights, is worthy of all else from you. And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream.” – The Prophet By Kahlil Gibran
The species of tigers is made by tigers alone. The human species is made by humans. This means that all humans are connected. The universe was made from the same elements the earth was formed, and from those same elements still humanity was made and kept reproducing. All creation is connected.
All created creations cannot do one without the other. Without the sun and the moon, the earth is uninhabitable. Without an inhabitable planet, life cannot flourish. And let’s say, without Earth and other planets and their moons, the sun isn’t a solar system where life dwells, it’s just another star in the galaxy. All of creation give one another meaning of life.
To be in alignment with what we are, it is best that we heed our fellow created creations. To realize that giving from what and who we are is part of our nature, as it’s part of all of nature. In giving itself fully, the sun receives its magnificence. Why would the opposite be true for any human being? The sun doesn’t deplete itself of life and light in giving, it rather brings life and light wherever it goes.
When you water others is when you are watering yourself. You are manifesting not only to yourself but to all of creation that you understand the dance of life and that you are a part of life’s dance. The dance that is giving graciously to not only benefit others’ lives but to benefit your own life in fulfilling the destiny of the universe by God’s design. It it God’s bountiful giving nature that is translated in all of creation.
What is Gracious Giving and Why Will Giving Graciously Benefit You?
Giving graciously is not giving many, many things. Giving graciously is giving without expecting anything in return. If you are giving and expecting something in return, you are not actually giving, are you? You are making a transaction. The sun gives its warmth and light to the plants and trees. Plants and trees won’t do anything for the sun in return.
What they’d rather be able to do is become food, the earth’s ventilation, and a serene and habitable environment for all creatures. Yet the sun will have something much greater. It’ll have its fulfillment and divine purpose. What the sun receives from giving graciously is far more abundant and long-lasting than if it expected something in return from trees, plants, and other living organisms.
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. – The Prophet
When you give freely without getting anything in return, your being and life reap far more abundantly than they ever could because that act of giving becomes so pure and sincere that it purifies the soul spiritually. What is pure purifies, what else could it do? Your soul gets cleansed because you are unlearning the transactional nature of the world and reconnecting with the gracious giving nature of the universe in love. Love is who the Creator of all creation is. Love is the Creator’s language. If you are operating in love, you are operating in God Almighty.
Going back to the nature of the universe is going back to your roots and your most pure form of being. A pure soul will transfer over all your life as your heart reflects who you are. You do not need to give greatly, just make sure that when you do give it is gracious. And as The Prophet teaches us, giving of self is the most gracious of gracious giving. Be in love, and you will abound in your capacity to be a part of the language creation speaks as taught by the Creator.
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