Woman to Woman
Vol. 5, No. 5
“And ye are complete in him.” Colossians 2:10
Sept./Oct. 2002
The Giving Jar
Rachel Paxton
Giving with a happy heart
If you teach a child to give
with a happy heart you will
raise a child who will never
hesitate to lend a helping
hand. Children enjoy helping
others, especially if they see
their parents doing the same.
When a child’s basic physical
and emotional needs are met,
they are willing to share
almost anything they have with someone in need.
My daughter wanted to help others from the time
she was old enough to understand what it was she was
doing. Before she was old enough for an allowance she
helped me go through her outgrown clothes and toys to
give away to charities. At Christmastime we would
shop together for needy families (she looked forward to
this as much as picking out her own gifts). And this
doesn’t mean we weren’t needy ourselves. When my
daughter was young I was a single mom working and
going to college, and I was barely able to make ends
meet. What little we had left over, however, we used to
help others. I am convinced that this act of helping
others took my daughter’s focus off of our own
circumstances and created a passion in her for helping
others. She always had food to eat and clothes to
wear—she did not sense a lack in her life and so was
willing to freely give anything she had.
As my daughter got older and started getting an
allowance, she started spending her own money. She
spent her allowance on family Christmas and birthday
presents (however small), started tithing, and started
contributing to charities of her choice. My daughter’s
allowance is relatively small, compared to some of her
friends, but that doesn’t keep her from making
contributions, no matter how small, to people and
organizations she wants to help. Now that she’s old
enough to babysit, she has even more money to decide
what to do with. She decides what to spend on herself,
what to save, and what to give to others.
Our family recently came up with an idea of how we
could work together to save up some money to help
others. I am forever picking up loose change around the
house, on the floor, in the car, and in the bottom of my
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Inside This Issue:
Editorial ·······················Page 2
Duped!
Spotlight on Orphans·················Page 4
A Day of Reckoning
Some Hard Questions ················Page 6
Can You Plant ····················Page 8
Hearth Embers ···················Page 10
Two Prayers - One Kitten; Smile!; I Can’t?; Recipe for
Friendship; To Hide the Dirt; Don’t Judge Too Hard
Health is Wealth···················Page 12
Fearfully and Wonderfully Made; Prescription for Health
Come Sit at the Feet of Jesus ············Page 13
The Fall and Restoration of Eve
A Page from My Experience ············Page 14
The Cost of Counterfeiting
Encounters With Jesus ···············Page 15
Feasting on Crumbs
Happy Homemaking and Family Harmony ····Page 16
Surviving and Learning From Life’s Hard Lessons
Wee Wit & Wisdom
From the Internet ··················Page 18
Pedal; I Refuse
Scripture Study ···················Page 19
A Tree to be Desired
