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Daily Question, September 18

Reflect on a meaningful experience of receiving from someone. What makes it stand out?

  • devy

    When I was working for social assistance, every Christmas I would receive cards from some of my clients. It showed me how much they appreciated my support and assistance helping them. It lightened my heart and makes me smile thinking that they took the time in spite of their own difficulties

  • ABC

    I received 50 minutes from a client today. It stands out because they showed up; they participated with a whole heart. Receiving is giving and one reflects the other, exactly like the Principle of Correspondence. As above, so below; as below, so above. Give what you would like to receive and everything will stand out.

  • Kevin
    I have been involved in retreat ministry for Quaker children and teens for nearly four decades. It represents a great deal of work beforehand, during and after a residential weekend-long retreat has ended. Nobody does this work for the money. We do it for the transformational experience it gives young people. We also do it for the equally transformational experience it gives us as adults, too. There is no greater gift than being present when a child truly learns something new, has a spiritual ex...

    I have been involved in retreat ministry for Quaker children and teens for nearly four decades. It represents a great deal of work beforehand, during and after a residential weekend-long retreat has ended. Nobody does this work for the money. We do it for the transformational experience it gives young people. We also do it for the equally transformational experience it gives us as adults, too. There is no greater gift than being present when a child truly learns something new, has a spiritual experience of their own, makes new friends, overcomes a fear or walks up at the end of a retreat and asks me, “Will you be staffing at our next retreat?” That, for the heart and spirit, is payday.

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  • Anonymous

    it’s always the kindness that stands out, especially when unexpected. would love to become someone who is able to give in this way ?

  • Howie Geib
    Receiving is not comfortable for me in general. It still takes effort on my part to be vulnerable enough (and humble enough) to actually feel good about receiving anything. I remember getting a gift from my father, it was touching and meaningful in the sense that he had chosen the gift after some thought, and yet, I still came away from the exchange feeling somehow incomplete, undeserving and some sense of shame. It is a sad thing that I am more comfortable, naturally content, in transactional e...

    Receiving is not comfortable for me in general. It still takes effort on my part to be vulnerable enough (and humble enough) to actually feel good about receiving anything. I remember getting a gift from my father, it was touching and meaningful in the sense that he had chosen the gift after some thought, and yet, I still came away from the exchange feeling somehow incomplete, undeserving and some sense of shame. It is a sad thing that I am more comfortable, naturally content, in transactional exchanges when I can walk away and not feel obligated. It is a handicap I work at overcoming. In the end of the day I am faced with an irrational sense of inadequacy.

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  • EJP

    True kindness and compassion during a time of illness received from an unexpected person.

  • Julie

    I have received some flowers and a card full of get well soon messages from my lovely colleagues. This was unexpected and has lifted my spirits.

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