Gifting is one of the most powerful forces for good and for change we have in the world.

I found myself sitting in a knitting group yesterday.*  The conversation turned towards the value of the different things they were creating, how, they couldn’t turn it into a business because they wouldn’t be able to charge for the hours they poured into producing these items.  But if they made something for you, what a gift.

There’s always a risk.  If a person doesn’t appreciate just what they’re getting, they might not value the gift.

The art of gifting has two major elements.

The desire to give something of great value to another is the element we can control.  The other we can’t.   It is the willingness of another to receive the gift as just that, and to use it extravagantly.

Two further thoughts.

Whoever we are with whatever we have – we can gift another.  The person who spends more time to speak encouraging things to someone  in need is just one way.

The other thought is how we need others to create and shape this economy of giftedness – we are not self-sufficient.  Someone may try and gift something to you today.  Be ready to receive it.

When we enter this new economy, something deep within resonates – beyond believing it the right thing to do, even beyond feeling it to be right.  We are connecting with our deep Humanness.

(*I’m no knitter.  I was with a couple of others doing some crafting when we found ourselves in the knitting group’s usual meeting place and we hung around with them.)