Oh Crap! – Musings of an Unperfect Mommy

Wednesday Wisdom

November 18, 2015

Today’s quote is from “A Little Princess” written by Frances Hodgson Burnett and is timely seeing how Thanksgiving and Christmas are almost upon us.

“If Nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.”

In other words, even when you have nothing physical to give, you can give out of the capacity of your heart. This could be time spent with a lonely person. Or helping someone across a street or getting them something from a high shelf at Walmart. Little acts of kindness can really mean a lot. We usually equate giving with actual things, but sometimes the thing is intangible but means infinitely more.

So, let’s remember to give what we have when we can this holiday season. Even if all you can put in the Salvation Army bucket is a dollar, remember that if 100,000 people each give a dollar then that’s $100,000. Your dollar combines with the others to make a lot. It’s all good. I’ll end with a familiar nursery rhyme that wraps up this sentiment:

Christmas is coming
The goose is getting fat
Please to put a penny in the old man’s hat
If you haven’t got a penny
A ha-penny will do
If you haven’t got a ha-penny, then God Bless You.

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