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Giving with Gusto

by Chuck Swindoll

When the heart is right, the feet are swift. That's the way Thomas Jefferson put it many years ago. There are other ways to say the same thing. A happy spirit takes the grind out of giving. A positive attitude makes sacrifice a pleasure. When the morale is high, the motivation is strong. When there is joy down inside, no challenge seems too great. The grease of gusto frees the gears of generosity.

Open Heart, Open Hand

by Steve Johnson

As a Christian, when I think of character qualities I would like to possess one that looms large is magnanimity. In 1843 Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol. Most of us are familiar with Ebenezer Scrooge, the main character in this beloved novel. He's a miserly, altogether stingy curmudgeon of a man who underpays, is ungracious and intolerant toward his employees and people around him. Scrooge is surly to everyone he meets and is even too cheap to heat his own office properly. He values things and uses people.

Miss Petty and the Grudge

by Robyn Roste

I've always imagined a grudge as something like a brownish-grey blob, which follows you around like a cloud, feeding off your feelings of resentment and ill will towards whoever has insulted you. The more you hold on to those feelings, the bigger the grudge gets, until it is strong enough to take its own form—no longer relying on your feelings but generating his own, and influencing your actions. In short, the grudge becomes the Grudge.

Insight Values Inventory

As we go through life, developing, learning, and experiencing things, we form our own values—those things we consider to be useful, important, and worthwhile. When we share those values with others, whether in a family, marriage, church, or at work, there is usually harmony. When values shift or change, there will usually be conflict. Many times when people are in conflict they don't recognize that much of it boils down to simply having different values.

Dating My Daughter

by Phil Callaway

Dating is nothing new for my daughter. Years ago Rachael began leaving our house once a month for dinner and a movie with the guy she loved: Her dad. It wasn't for lack of alternatives. Boys proposed to her when she was three, four, and twice when she was six. Each time she most emphatically said no.

Anger

by Help Me Understand

I don't think it's too much to expect people to treat me fairly and give me what I need. So why do people keep treating me poorly? Sometimes I feel depressed and impatient when I'm not respected. Like when I have to wait for people or when our plans change at the last minute — but who wouldn't? It's just impolite to treat me like that.