Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.

This Christmas and every Christmas will be richer by sharing and enjoying gifts that cannot be held but only felt.

Leave everyone you meet better than you found them. Become an encourager of potential versus a destroyer of confidence.

God, help me to see others not as enemies or as ungodly but rather as thirsty people. And give me the courage and compassion to offer your Living Water, which alone quenches deep thirst.

Dating is a give and take. If you only see it as "Taking," you are not getting it.

Again and again I tell God I need help, and God says, "Well isn't that fabulous? Because I need help too. So you go get that old woman over there some water, and I'll figure out what we're going to do about your stuff.

What seems like sacrifice becomes instead a kind of nourishment because dispensing grace enriches the giver as well as the receiver.

Wise companions learn to seek out the delicate balance between offering help and offering too much help.

God's gifts are best used when we give them away in serving those who have less.

The key is this: the main benefit of giving is in its effect on the giver. Yes, people in Africa and India need my financial help, as the fund-raising appeals urgently remind me. But in truth my need to give is every bit as desperate as their need to receive.

Our need to give is every bit as desperate as the poor's need to receive.

The quintessential good and beauty in life is what each has to offer to others valuing the gesture ourselves into confluence with the Word of God.