"Have you learned that when you give to others, you also receive?"

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About 20 friends got together to serve in a soup kitchen one Saturday. The group included a teenaged boy who absolutely loves playing music.

Well, this teenaged boy spots a piano there in the soup kitchen and asks the man in charge if he can play during the meal. “Sure,” says the man, and announces to the 100 or so folks there that this young man would play for them. The boy didn’t bring any music. He just sits down and plays, and quite well.

A woman whose husband died recently is among that group of friends serving. She watches the teenaged boy playing for everyone’s enjoyment and gets an idea. She asks the boy’s mother if it would be okay if she gave him a keyboard as a gift. She had bought herself one, not played it much, and wanted to reward his generosity. Of course the mother said, “Yes,” and so at a surprise party for someone else, she asked the teenaged boy to go to her car with her and presented him with a very expensive keyboard.

When you give to others, you also receive. And that’s one way you can make a life, not just a living today.

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