GIVERS &
RECEIVERS & TAKERS & GRABBERS
by Angel-Light Love of Texas
Spiritual & Metaphysical Healing/Wellbeing Facilitator
(Spirit-Mind-Body-Environment)
July 22, 2017 on ♥Angel-Light Beamer♥
https://angel-light-love-healing.blogspot.com
I like to think that most people are generous givers and
appreciative receivers. However, many of
us can be generous givers but have difficulty receiving gifts from others—even if
we really want the gift or are in need.
I confess that majorly describes my own self in the past. I’ve spent many
years increasing my self-esteem and learning to receive but, truth be told, there’s
still a tiny bit of that reluctance to receive remaining—especially when the
giver has financial challenges. I often remind myself of the truth: “When one
most needs to receive is one most needs to give.” Just
this week, I told a supporter friend about what happened once when I was recently
divorced and in need in the late 1980s.
Had some tears as I got in my car outside my apartment building and
prayed aloud, “Please give me someone to help” (because I knew giving
materially would make me feel better about being in need my own self). Instantly, there came a knock on my car
window, and four excited little brothers who were staying temporarily in a
nearby apartment were standing there. When I put the window down, they began
telling me, “Mam, mam, we’re going to school!” And one of them asked, “Do you
have any pencils?” How wonderful! I responded in the affirmative and got of the
car. They followed me to my apartment and I gave them pencils, little scissors,
rulers, etc. You see, I keep supplies
and gifts that I buy on sale around (and extra food and supplies). Don’t have an automobile to buy new items
that can often be found at yard/garage sales as I once did, but I can still
pick up some school supplies at the neighborhood Walmart. Not much need for those now that I’m living
in an apartment community for senior citizens. So it is usually extra food and
household supplies that I keep to give—as I am able, of course. I tend to be overly generous. Giving to
individuals can provide a lot of satisfaction. However, it feels extra wonderful to buy
non-perishable food items on sale in the months preceding the annual United
States Postal Service food drive every May and then put the bags out on pickup
day. That’s just me. Someone else may
feel differently.
And then there are some people who are primarily takers. One good example of this is an acquaintance of
about 25 years ago. There’s nothing wrong
with gathering and saving discount coupons for restaurant meals, which he did,
among other things. (Trying to get a store or restaurant to accept expired
coupons habitually, as someone else I knew a few years later would do, means one
is a taker.) However, one day I saw the acquaintance at the salad bar in a
health food store filling a to-go container.
At that time all those years ago, the store charged a set amount for the
large containers of salad and a lesser amount for the small containers. Anyway, the acquaintance told me that he could
fill the container with tomatoes and other fixings--everything but salad greens—and
buy the less expensive lettuce separately to make his own salad at home. He was
so proud of himself. Eventually, the store became wise to what this man and
probably others were doing and began weighing the contents and charging by the
ounce. Takers.
It occurred to me recently that there is a category more
extreme than that of takers. Some people
are grabbers. Nothing wrong with standing in line for hours to get into stores
when the doors open with terrific sales (such as what happens here in the USA
on our Thanksgiving holiday weekend). However,
running to displays and wrestling with others to get the items on sale means
the person is probably of grabber consciousness.
Recently, someone in another state whom we assisted a little
with spiritual and metaphysical information and clearing a couple of years ago accused
me (via message on Internet) of not liking him/her because I had informed him/her
a few times since then that we wouldn’t be available for him/her again—politely
but clearly. This time, I responded, “Mouth
hanging open. Just because my guidance is not to assist further doesn't mean I
don't like you. We assist some and don't
assist others and assist some others minimally.
Liking and not liking is elementary stuff. Again, may all be well with you. May there be
plenty for you.” Once again, he/she
nagged and asked why we won’t assist him/her further, adding: “So, are you as
rude to everyone else as you are to me?”
People, someone who won’t take no for an answer over and over again is a
grabber. And the time of that person would
be well spent in establishing and maintaining a clear and strong High Self/Soul
connection and presence.
We are the Angel-Light
Team—a collective of beings on mission to assist humanity. We don’t do
business. We do service. We trust Divine
to provide for our human instrument through the kindness and generosity of
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there be plenty for you!
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