Have you ever noticed that true giving can never be from the physical? This is because nothing in this physical world belongs to us. Our bodies are borrowed from the earth, our breath is recycled air, our thoughts are recycled energy from the air waves, and everything we use clothes, food, shelter…. etc…. nothing is ours, they have all been borrowed from this Earth to help us witness a human experience!
If this is so, then the only thing that is ours is our Conscious Presence.
In this human experience we love to give gifts, we feel good about giving gifts. If we give physical gifts we have given nothing of ours, we have only shared that which we have borrowed from the earth.
Giving our conscious Presence is when we can experience true generosity.
Being there in full Presence is when we have truly given a gift to someone.
True gifts that we can give are, listening with full attention when someone is speaking, hugging a loved one with full presence without any other thought in the mind, doing ones chores with full presence, if washing dishes then being fully present with the dish, the water, the soap, feeling each one with appreciation, if cooking then being totally present with the cooking process and not diverting ones attention to some radio, phone, computer, or tv, while eating being fully present with the food in appreciation, while taking a shower being fully present with appreciation, while in nature being fully present with the feel of the sun, the breeze, the plants and animals with appreciation.
When the body is sick or in pain the true gift we can give to this beautiful physical body that has been serving us all these years is to give it our conscious presence, to be with the pain, and touch and appreciate and talk to the body.
The Creator deserves our best gift. We cannot give the Creator anything physical for it would not be a gift from us. The true gift we give the Creator is our trust, simple trust and appreciation.
In summing up our gift of our conscious presence, which is our only gift that we bring to this Planet, we can also say that it is a gracious receiving of the gifts that this human experience is giving us.
True giving is graciously receiving the gifts of existence with our conscious Presence.
When we choose to give of ourselves, our Presence to existence we experience wisdom, joy, compassion and peace. We create grandness from our Presence within, we experience life to the fullest. Through our appreciation we bring grander solutions, and we become the builders of heaven on Earth.
We are the grand witness of life, let us choose to receive graciously the gifts of existence and become true gifts.
Blessings!
Premlatha Rajkumar
Live As Love & Joy 