{"id":1636,"date":"2013-08-03T08:57:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T14:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/?p=1636"},"modified":"2015-02-27T23:58:50","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T05:58:50","slug":"give-happily","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/?p=1636","title":{"rendered":"Give Happily"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver\u00a0(New Testament | 2 Corinthians 9:7).<\/em><\/p>\n

It was early on a Saturday morning, and only my one-year-old and I were up\u00a0 (the rest of the family was sleeping in). I gave him some juice, changed his diaper, and we danced together to the music in the front room.<\/p>\n

He acted like he was hungry, so we went to the kitchen and got an apple. He watched me as I washed it and cut a small slice. He followed me to the front room. I sat on the floor, and he sat on my lap. We both began enjoying our apples.<\/p>\n

He ate a small piece, obviously enjoying one of his most favorite treats. He looked me in the eyes, smiled, and held his apple up toward my lips. I smiled back and pretended to nibble his apple, then motioned that he could have it back. He smiled even bigger and took another bite of his apple slice.<\/p>\n

Then I thought that this is a perfect example of how we should look upon giving back to God.<\/p>\n

My son\u00a0could clearly see that I had a bigger apple, but that didn\u2019t bother him. He knew that I had given him his slice of apple, and that I had plenty for myself. Yet he wanted me to share his<\/em> slice. He smiled as he offered it to me. He delighted when I accepted his offering. He did not expect to receive anything more in return for his gift; he was just happy to give.<\/p>\n

I learned a little about giving today from a 1-year-old.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver\u00a0(New Testament | 2 Corinthians 9:7). It was early on a Saturday morning, and only my one-year-old and I were up\u00a0 (the rest of the family was sleeping in). I gave him … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[118,117],"class_list":["post-1636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ryans-posts","tag-giving","tag-tithing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1636"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1722,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1636\/revisions\/1722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glorajean.com\/content\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}