{"id":743,"date":"2017-12-20T23:24:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T05:24:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/?p=743"},"modified":"2017-12-27T23:33:30","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T05:33:30","slug":"year-3-week-13-reciprocity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/2017\/12\/20\/year-3-week-13-reciprocity\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 3, Week 13: Reciprocity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a conversation this week that reminded me about reciprocity and The Law of Giving.<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">I promise to keep these four promises:<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">1. Wherever I go I bring a gift. I may bring a compliment, a prayer, a trinket, a flower\u2026but I promise I GIVE something to every person I encounter.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">2. I promise to be a grateful receiver of the gifts that surround me, pausing often and noticing nature, kindnesses, smiles, and compliments, which I gladly RECEIVE with a \u201cthank you.\u201d<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">3. I promise to GIVE hope for joy, affluence, kindness, and love, consciously with every encounter, regardless of the brevity.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">4. I promise to GIVE, without expectation of reciprocity, from the channels I enrich, because I know I am in the dynamic flow of GIVING and RECEIVING.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\">I always keep my promises. Jean<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">I have come to find these statements helpful. Promise 4 is where I learned that if I want to give, I do so from my heart and because I want to give \u2014 not because someone will reciprocate with appreciation. It\u2019s nice when that happens, but we are in a constant flow of giving and receiving, and it comes from different sources.<\/div>\n<div class=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\">Maybe Johnny doesn\u2019t appreciate one awesome thing (or one little thing) I did to make his day better, but I received an unexpected gift that made my life better from Janie. It&#8217;s not that I didn&#8217;t appreciate the gift from Janie &#8212; if I noticed it, I&#8217;m sure I would, but I often receive gifts I don\u2019t recognize at the time to even know to appreciate them.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When I&#8217;m feeling underappreciated, I remind myself of Promise 4 and try to think of the many gifts I&#8217;ve received from other channels that I may not have noticed at the time. Promises 1-3 help with this.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a conversation this week that reminded me about reciprocity and The Law of Giving. I promise to keep these four promises: 1. Wherever I go I bring a gift. I may bring a compliment, a prayer, a trinket, a flower\u2026but I promise I GIVE something to every person I encounter. 2. I promise &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/2017\/12\/20\/year-3-week-13-reciprocity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Year 3, Week 13: Reciprocity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[129],"tags":[130],"class_list":["post-743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-year-three","tag-law-of-giving"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/IMG_3014-e1514439189856.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6MHaR-bZ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jeanschara.com\/mkmmajean\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}