about remembering to live generously

Be a person other people describe as generous.

Let this word set up camp inside you.  Let yourself think about how being it would transform your home, your neighbors, your heart.

Allow generous space between you and the car in front of you on the highway.  Leave a generous tip.  Give a generous portion when serving ice cream.

Learn what it means to be generous in relationship - generously forgive, generously share, generously affirm and generously encourage.

Generously give.  Give your money. Give your clothes.  Give your love.  Understand what it means to give something precious.  Learn to not think of this giving as "losing".

Be generous with your "thank you"s.  Let gratitude seep from you at any opportunity.
Generously thank each piece of your life for belonging exactly where it does- even the sharp pieces, ugly pieces, and heavy-like-brick pieces.  Thank them generously for constructing you into the person you're becoming.

Be excessively unapologetic for hoarding up generous amounts of joy.  Liberally exude it.  Prepare to be abundantly misunderstand.

Generously ask of other people.  Ask for help when you need it.  Ask for input and advice.  Ask for grace and forgiveness when you run dry.  Ask for generosity the way you'd ask for sugar from a neighbor - sometimes the person next door will have it when you just don't.

And be generous with yourself when being generous gets hard - when you want to lock it away because it hurts you, scares you, challenges you or inconveniences you.

Give yourself second chances.  Give yourself 70 x 7 chances to be generous.

There is never a bad time to try being it again.