Cheerful Generosity

Weekly Strength

July 16, 2010

 

I work with great people. Day after day I experience the warmth and caring of generous people who extend themselves in cheerful and creative ways that truly make a difference.

 

They make a difference to staff. They make a difference to patients. They make a difference to family members.

 

They remind me of a couple of Proverbs that tell of a contrast:

 

  One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds unduly, but comes to poverty.

  A generous [wo]man will prosper;

[s]he who refreshes others will be refreshed.

Proverbs 11:24-25 rsV J

 

The simplest principles are commonly most precious and perhaps most difficult to establish into the patterns in our lives.

 

I want to take this space to thank and encourage those that deliberately extend that precious cheerful generosity. May you be refreshed!

 

 rsV = Robin Storer Version

 – Chaplain Robin