You Always Have Something to Give

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YOU ALWAYS HAVE SOMETHING TO GIVE

Since prosperity is omnipresent, you always have something to give! A

widow with a houseful of small children telephoned a Unity counselor.

She had no money or food for her children. It was lunch time and her

children had not eaten since the day before. She desperately needed to

demonstrate prosperity.

The counselor knew that giving is the first step in receiving: that

one is never impoverished by giving, but is enriched. She explained

that the widow must first give in some way; that the act of giving

would move on universal substance, and would start substance flowing

back to her in some appropriate form.

The widow's first reaction was much the same as yours or mine may have

been the first time we were told we must give in order to receive. She

lamented: " But that's just the problem! I have nothing to give. " To

which the counselor replied: Of course you have something to give. We

always have something to give. " The counselor then urged this frantic

widow to look about her and ask for divine guidance concerning what

she could give.

It was further suggested that, after starting the flow of substance by

giving, she should get ready to receive by preparing her table for the

meal she wanted for her children; and by preparing her grocery list

for shopping, in the assurance that the necessary money would appear

very soon.

Hesitantly the widow followed instructions. Suddenly she remembered

flowers growing in her yard: she cut them and gave them to a sick

neighbor, who seemed overjoyed to receive them. Next she prepared her

table with the best china, silver, and linens in the house. This gave

the children pleasure and excitement, and they expectantly awaited a

good meal. Just as she was completing her grocery list, someone who

had owed her money for a long time dropped by and paid her $30 on the

debt. Thus she proved that giving is the first step in receiving.

Ponder in her book: " Secret of Unlimited Prosperity "

DeVorss Publications, copyright 1981