God’s Dictionary: Contribution

By on March 19, 2009 in Balance, Causes, Happiness, Living Your Purpose, Peace, Spirit, Spirituality, Success

Contribution

 

con- = together

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-tribuere = to bestow; also, of the tribe 

 

          Over the years, I’ve done spiritual counseling with thousands of people.  This word has arisen again and again as something each of their hearts desired.  They would say, “I want to make a contribution to the world.” It’s natural that we want this.

 

I always ask them what that means to them. It’s different for each one of us. I’ve heard answers as diverse as, “I want to create a happy family,” to “I want to win the Nobel Peace Prize.”        

 

          To contribute means, from the Latin, to bestow together, and further, of the tribe. These parallel each other. First, let’s take as a working premise that each of us does have a contribution to make to the world. Second, that each contribution is a bestowal, a gift, and third, that it comes from the place inside us where we know we belong, our tribe.

 

The person who creates wonderful radio shows probably wouldn’t be happy as the Secretary of Transportation. That’s the point: your contribution is yours alone to make. Ask:  How can I bestow my gifts today?

 

Infinition:

 

          I know I belong here and that I have a contribution to make. I applaud the contributions of others and I make the one that only I can make.

 

reprinted from God’s Dictionary (Tarcher/Putnam 2002)

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For many years, Susan was an organizational consultant and motivational speaker guiding nuclear scientists as well as entrepreneurs into their life purposes. Some of her former clients include Westinghouse Hanford Company, Mary Kay Cosmetics, Gila River Casinos, and the American Nuclear Society, among many others.

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