AUTHOR: LAURIE PINKINS
'Tis the season
to give back
Learn how to overcome financial stress during the holiday season by giving back.
The holidays are intended to be full of love, joy, and valuable connections. They can also create excessive stress of financial burden with gift giving. However, finding a way to give back can help to alleviate the financial stress of the holiday blues. This is a result of your generosity in expressing the goodness of GOD toward others, through your giving back.
“Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.” Proverbs 3:17 KJV
Managing Financial Stress during the Holidays
The holidays don’t have to be financially stressful. Proper planning and creating a holiday budget will free up the angst of gift-giving. Maintain expectations centered on valuable memories with friends and family. Avoid excessive gift-giving to people please or maintain a false status quo. Look forward to holiday traditions and festivities where gift-giving is not the focus. The holidays can be a time filled with love and cheer when you change your perspective. You can even decide to change your holiday gift-giving to include or only focus on giving back.
“Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.” Luke 6:38 KJV
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The holidays can be a time filled with love
Change your perspective.
The holidays are a time to spread love and cheer. Create a loving environment for you and your family. Plan to spend quality time with one another where you can make valuable memories. Reduce the financial stress of gift-giving by focusing on each other and the goodness of GOD. Show gratitude toward GOD for HIS goodness by giving back to others. Through giving back you can reduce the financial stress of the holiday blues by focusing on showing the goodness of GOD to others.
The Importance of Giving Back during the Holidays
Giving back during the holidays allows you the opportunity to gain perspective on the things that are important in life. You can make a significant impact on the lives of others in various ways. Those who may not have the access to resources to give a gift to their children or family can benefit from your giving back. The commercialization of holidays causes you to become distracted by over-shopping, over-spending, and over-giving. However, giving back will ease the tension of buying to perfect gift. You will be able to connect your generosity to fill others with joy. It is important to give back during the holidays to help change your perspective.
Ways to Give Back during the Holidays
Holidays are a time to give thanks and give back to those around you. There are various ways you can find opportunities to give back during the holidays. Here are a few ways to give volunteering, donating clothing, giving to a local church, assisting a shelter, or sponsoring a family.
Volunteer. Do a simple internet search for local charities near you. Contact the local charity or non-profit organization for volunteer opportunities you can participate in.
Donate clothing. Give away gently used or new items you do not use to a local shelter. Take advantage of holiday sales to purchase seasonal clothing, i.e. coats, warm socks, gloves, scarves, and blankets to give away.
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Holidays are a time to give thanks.
Give back to those around you.
Give to your local church. The holidays are a wonderful time of the year to give a special offering to your church.
Assist a shelter. Shelters oftentimes experience an increase in demand during the holidays and inclement weather.
Sponsor a family. Collaborate with friends or co-workers to sponsor a family in need during the holidays.
10 Scriptures for Goodness and Giving
“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 6:21 KJV
The healing process to overcome the financial stress of the holiday blues can be complex. However, sustainable healing is possible with GOD. There is power in speaking and meditating on the scriptures of the Bible daily. Read, speak, and meditate on the 10 scriptures for goodness.
Benefits of Giving Back during the Holidays
There are numerous benefits for you to give back during the holidays. It encourages you to slow down and evaluate the reason for celebrating. You gain perspective on the good things you have. Giving back is not primarily based on giving from a place of financial abundance. It enables you to share from a place where you are full of love, joy, peace, and contentment. Give with a generous heart to increase the well-being of others. The holidays provide a great opportunity for you to share the goodness of GOD with others by giving back.
Next Steps
Intentionally focusing on expressing the goodness of GOD toward others, through your giving back. This will allow you to spread love and cheer. Use these steps to overcome financial stress during the holiday season by giving back.
Use these steps to show the goodness of GOD by giving back.
- Volunteer
- Donate clothing
- Give to your local church
- Assist a shelter
- Sponsor a family
Read, speak and meditate on the 10 scriptures of the Bible for Goodness.
“Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.” Luke 6:38 KJV
“Honour the LORD with thy substance, and with the firstfruits of all thine increase:” Proverbs 3:9 KJV
“But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of GOD in him?” 1 John 3:17 KJV
“For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Matthew 6:21 KJV
“Withhold not good from them to whom it is due, when it is in the power of thine hand to do it.” Proverbs 3:27 KJV
“I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.” Psalm 27:13 KJV
“Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for GOD loveth a cheerful giver.” 2 Corinthians 9:7 KJV
“(For the fruit of the SPIRIT is in all goodness and righteousness and truth;)” Ephesians 5:9 KJV
“Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:” 2 Thessalonians 1:11 KJV
“Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the LORD for ever.” Psalm 23:6 KJV
Are you having difficulty enjoying the holiday season? Want to transform your life today? Get your free consultation with a Life Transformation & Healing coach to start the journey to find goodness in GOD.
And the people, when they knew it, followed HIM: and HE received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of GOD, and healed them that had need of healing.
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