{"id":15619,"date":"2022-04-20T06:26:06","date_gmt":"2022-04-20T13:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/?p=15619"},"modified":"2022-11-07T11:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:34:24","slug":"6-you-receive-by-giving-why-radjoy-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/radical-joy-revealed\/6-you-receive-by-giving-why-radjoy-works\/","title":{"rendered":"#6\u2014You Receive by Giving: Why RadJoy Works"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>It\u2019s customary to bring a gift to someone who\u2019s ill or going through a hard time. We bring flowers, a book, something warm and delicious to eat. This gift is our recognition that the one we love may be having a challenging time managing daily activities and could use a little help. It\u2019s also a way of cheering that friend up with some beauty and attention.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>The same impetus of love and generosity inspires us to visit and make beauty for a hurt place.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>When we go to a sick friend or a wounded place, we don\u2019t rush in with an intention to make things different from what they are; we accept the situation for what it is, even though we don\u2019t like it.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We do not love our friend less because she is going through tough circumstances; we love her because of who she is. So, too, do we discover a startling new kind of love for a challenged place.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We give a gift to our friend because we care\u2014and in doing that and being fully present for the current circumstances, we feel the relationship deepening. The same is true when we visit a hurt place.\u00a0We come to know it in a new way and discover that our love and gratitude for it are not diminished by the hardship, but actually enhanced by our ability to share that reality.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>And when we give a gift to a friend, whether a person or a place, we express that profound connection between us in a tangible form. Then we ourselves feel joy.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>\u2014April 20, 2022<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s customary to bring a gift to someone who\u2019s ill or going through a hard time. We bring flowers, a book, something warm and delicious to eat. This gift is our recognition that the one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":15620,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":23,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"place":[],"event-year":[467],"media-type":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15621,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15619\/revisions\/15621"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15619"},{"taxonomy":"place","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/place?post=15619"},{"taxonomy":"event-year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/event-year?post=15619"},{"taxonomy":"media-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radicaljoy.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media-type?post=15619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}