Divine Strategy - Get Results Now

Remember the old Ro-Sham-Bo game?  Paper covers Rock and wins.  Such a fundamental lesson of how when least expected the mightiest of enemies can fall at the hands of the simplest things.  It is like this, I think, with hardened hearts - who's life's struggles have turned them to stone.  I witnessed it myself just last night as someone I've known to be frozen in a granite fortress of fear fell prey to the crushing blows of authentic, belly wrenching, side-splitting, laughter.  Laughter so sweet and intoxicating it got the whole room giggling until everyone was just about out of breath.  That kind of laughter can heal such a heart, if not completely than at least by blasting a chasm wide enough for the love to flow again from that heart into the world.  Something everyone in the room was better for.  So, when times are darkest, and you feel your own heart turning cold and hard find a way, any way, to laugh and let your own love flow.

Be a gracious hostess to life and your rewards will be plentiful.  Not only will others speak highly of you but you will be lifted up by the pride of doing more than is expected.  To bring an element of surprise and delight into another's life is always uplifting for both the giver and the recipient.

I witnessed this first hand during my recent house warming party when I surprised my guest with a giving game I use to get people involved in the festivities.  The guest were each given a small gift for attending and a note card, but before they could open the gift they were instructed to open the card and figure out (by the clue inside) who the card belong to, once they did they actually gave that gift to the other guest.  This continued until everyone not only had a parting gift but also had the extra gift of getting to share something interesting about each other with the whole group, and also being able to give a gift to a new acquaintance. 

I believe it was that little something extra that amplified the act of giving from just handing someone a gift as they heading into or out of the party to a spirited celebration of giving and receiving.  My guests were delighted to see the brightly colored gifts appear but even more excited to be able to give to each other.  In the end I received the biggest gift by being able to create a community of giving and christen my home as a place of joy and love.