Acts 20:35 English Standard Version
35 In
all things I have shown you that by working hard in this way we
must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how He
Himself said, “It is more blessed to give than to receive.”
This very well
known Bible verse is used in so many contexts it had lost some impact for me
until just recently. Random Acts of Love (RAOL) decided to
bless some local first responder organizations with an unannounced delivery of store-bought
cookies taking some of our kids along to help out.
The expressions on
the children’s faces when both first handed the unopened cookie packages and
then again when they gave the packages to the civil servants, were ones of
indescribable joy. They were beyond
excited to both be included, to belong, and also to give something so important
to them to someone else, knowing how exciting it had to be to actually be given
something as “valuable” as their very own package of unopened not “already been
chewed” cookies.
I don’t know if
the kids were too young to remember this particular act of love for very long. But if they’re regularly immersed in such
acts throughout life they’ll easily remember the blessed emotion of heightened joy
and therefore long for more “giving” endorphins, after all, “He Himself said…”
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