Today may find you helping others at work or in your community, making you feel useful and giving. This charitable mood makes you more fully aware of the cycle of giving and receiving that is always at work in our lives. It may seem unselfish to help others, but we benefit in many ways from giving and sharing our prosperity, whether it is our time, money, or talent. It may seem that we give to one and receive from another, but actually all giving and receiving comes from and goes to the same source. Since we are connected to that source, when we give today, we are sure to receive.

Another benefit we reap is the ability to see beyond our own lives. It is so easy to get caught up in our own goals and challenges that we forget how different other people's lives and challenges can be. Helping others often gives us perspective and humbles us, enabling us to see with new eyes all the good we truly have in our lives right now. Filled with gratitude that we have enough to give, we learn to appreciate it all anew. We could eliminate poverty and hunger in the world if we all remembered to help the other members of our universal family. When we make the decision to give today, we are doing our parts to save the world, while also truly saving ourselves.