Monday, Monday.  It is December 11 and as each day goes by, the probability increases that you will spend more and more frantic time OUT THERE amidst ALL of humanity SHOPPING!

     The possibility also increases that any number of PEOPLE will approach you.  Some will be scarey looking.  Some will ask to wash your car windows.  Some will say nothing because they will be sleeping on the sidewalk, but they are approaching you all the same!  Some will have "stories," and probably none of them original.  "I ran out of gas....I'm on my way to Loma Linda for chemotherapy....I just need a few dollars for....I haven't eaten....We have no home and the kids have no gifts...."

     Do you remember the scene in Christmas Vacation when Clark and Eddie are in the grocery store shopping?  We will run into plenty of  Eddies in the coming weeks and some may even be our relatives.

     Is there any way, we could keep it all simple for our hearts?  So, do not waste the energy JUDGING if "Eddie" deserves what he is asking for?  Simply let yourself make a simple decision from your heart.  Do you want to GIVE something to Eddie or not?  And if not, then don't, and don't judge either Eddie or yourself.  And if you do, then give what your heart wants to give and let it go at that.  Don't judge yourself a Saint nor Eddie LUCKY!  Just give.  Let yourself experience being GENEROUS of heart.

     Now we can also be generous of heart in other ways as well.  We can give more generously of our time with our loved ones.  We can rub a couple of feet and a back a few more times than we might ordinarily choose to!  We might take a trip or two and miss a football game or two just because.  We might spend a few extra dollars that we were saving for the second round of the Great Depression, again just because.

     The mountains are generous with their awesome beauty this morning.  They are covered with snow which makes them look like the Alps.  There is no ticket to buy.  I just have to take a few moments to gaze and take them in.  It's amazing how enormous they are, yet my small eyeballs capture it all.  Kind of like our hearts.  They are relatively small, but capable of taking in so much and giving so much.  Have a generous week!