10 reflections on giving and receiving

Sorry I haven't posted much lately, but this homework assignment should be up in time for you to complete this weekend. I'll expect your written essays in my inbox by 10am Monday morning for grading.

1. When you have been involved in an act of generosity--large or small--what have you noticed happened in yourself?
   
2. What makes it difficult for you to follow your generous impulses?
3. Who was a role model of generosity in your life? Tell that person's story.
4. How where you taught about giving?
5. What changes in relationships when people are generous with one another?
6. Describe a time when you felt that your giving was natural and spontaneous?
   
7. Describe what is both hardest and easiest for you to share: Time? Money? Love? Possessions? Your company? Why?
8. How do you receive the generosity of others?
   
9. How do you give without placing yourselves in control or above those you seek to help?
   
10. What steps can you take to liberate your natural generosity and the generosity of those around you?
    

For these and other questions with no wrong answers, please visit Learning to Give, a project of the Fetzer Institute.