Comments on: Investment Strategies for Relationships? http://www.liveintentionally.org/2009/02/10/investment-strategies-for-relationships/ You matter. Live like it. Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:05:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Laura Long http://www.liveintentionally.org/2009/02/10/investment-strategies-for-relationships/comment-page-1/#comment-2725 Laura Long Wed, 11 Feb 2009 16:12:09 +0000 http://www.liveintentionally.org/2009/02/10/investment-strategies-for-relationships/#comment-2725 It's a worthwhile discussion to pursue, the motive of a truly selfless giver. Even the act of giving selflessly, in it's own right, carries the intangible reward of "knowing-ness" that you gave without expecting something directly in return. I think that many of us who have developed the habit of giving selflessly were not 100 percent surprised when blessings came our way seemingly out of the blue. If even only in a small portion, we still trusted in something or Someone greater than ourselves when we took the risk of giving unconditionally. I don't disagree by any means, but I think it is almost impossible for us, as humans, to achieve a giving style that is completely void of the thought of some sort of return. Personally, I am very mindful of the absence or presence of God's blessing in my life, and it is something I don't just desire, but truly crave. Oh, to be humble enough to truly wish for nothing back. I think it's our admiration of true humility that puts us in awe of those who seem to do this selfless giving so well. It is that humility that must make these quiet heroes seem so oblivious to any sense of honor unto themselves for their selfless acts. But the honor is still there, isn't it? There is nothing sent out in the name of love that can return void. It's a principle of the universe and its Maker. It’s a worthwhile discussion to pursue, the motive of a truly selfless giver. Even the act of giving selflessly, in it’s own right, carries the intangible reward of “knowing-ness” that you gave without expecting something directly in return. I think that many of us who have developed the habit of giving selflessly were not 100 percent surprised when blessings came our way seemingly out of the blue. If even only in a small portion, we still trusted in something or Someone greater than ourselves when we took the risk of giving unconditionally.

I don’t disagree by any means, but I think it is almost impossible for us, as humans, to achieve a giving style that is completely void of the thought of some sort of return. Personally, I am very mindful of the absence or presence of God’s blessing in my life, and it is something I don’t just desire, but truly crave.

Oh, to be humble enough to truly wish for nothing back. I think it’s our admiration of true humility that puts us in awe of those who seem to do this selfless giving so well. It is that humility that must make these quiet heroes seem so oblivious to any sense of honor unto themselves for their selfless acts.

But the honor is still there, isn’t it?

There is nothing sent out in the name of love that can return void. It’s a principle of the universe and its Maker.

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