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Today, I am learning to graciously open my hands and accept what falls before me. I am trying on receiving for a while. this is a new place, a foreign way of being for me. i am having to draw on great courage and humble myself in what is required in order to keep moving forward.  it has compelled me to look more closely, at underlying truths i have held for myself and my very worth. Why the very task of an offering is so tremendously difficult for me to embrace i am yet to really understand. Why i have put others, known and unknown above and before my own needs for my entire life also is yet to be clear,but now; now life has deemed it is necessary to be on the receiving end for a while. I graciously will allow others to embrace the act of giving, for i understand without one there simply is no other. If I’m not able to receive well when i most need it, then i am denying someone else the opportunity to give and if i was to be denied every time i felt compelled to give in some way of myself to someone who needed something, i would most definitely be devastated by the declination. I have no doubt that as life keeps circling, the time will come once again when i will be able to give back what has come forth for me. For now though, from the depths of my heart i say thank you world, from myself and my children.

 

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If there is anything I can pass onto my children with a hope they too will carry it on in their lives, it would be the simple act of giving.

Today we became proud parents. Parents to children we may never see, to their voices we may never hear, to their hands we will never hold, we may never be seen in their eyes as important nor will they ever know of us by name. We are taking care of these children We are becoming part of a movement where humanity matters Where children have the right to eat when they are hungry, the right to drink water that won’t make them sick, the right to be cared for and educated, and the right to feel safe and loved.

Today we gave.