Showing posts with label presents. Show all posts
Showing posts with label presents. Show all posts

Monday, 4 April 2011

Many Happy Returns

There is a saying ‘Give and it will come back to you, good measure, pressed down shaken together and running over.’.  Lots of times we think this refers to us giving to charity etc.  Think about this.  Gifts come in all shapes and sizes.  Sometimes they are welcome, and sometimes they are not.  Some gifts have conditions attached to them.  Some gifts are given ‘just because’ without expectation of return, whilst others are treated like a barter.  Some gifts are tangible, whilst others are subtle, cannot be physically seen, but are experienced.
There is one type of present that we all can give and that is ‘trouble and strife’.  It’s certainly the type of gift that no one wants, yet some people think it OK to present.  Is giving heartache to someone else and then expecting, even demanding that good things happen to you realistic or reasonable? 

Lets give good in our relationships.  The returns (if that is the right word) not necessarily in the same form, will be greater than the initial giving.