God’s Dictionary: Receive

By on March 5, 2009 in Peace, Spirit

Receive

 

re- = back    +    capere = to take

 

            This is one of the hardest principles taught in the spiritual life. We have gone overboard in the giving department—waaaaay overboard, and taking “it is more blessed to give than to receive” to the proverbial nth degree, we burn out on giving and wonder why. It’s simple really. 

         

Receiving is part of an equation that follows the inexorability of mathematical principles. (Read this next bit twice.) The cost of giving is receiving.  (Maybe I should write it again!) The cost of giving is receiving. What this means is: we cannot give without receiving, and the Latin roots of this word tell us so.  They mean to take back.

 

Here’s how true giving works. First, we receive from God, and then we give.  Next, we receive from God again, and give again. Ask: How can I take back to God what I’ve received so I may give again today?

 

Infinition:

 

          Receiving is part of the divine equation of giving here on earth. I have this understanding in my cells from now on: first I receive, then I can give till it’s time to receive again.

 

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

Read more divine definitions at Dr. Corso’s blog, God’s Dictionary

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Dr. Susan Corso is a spiritual author, speaker, and counselor. An omnifaith minister and the author of God’s Dictionary (Tarcher/Putnam 2002) and The Peace Diet, she has had a spiritual counseling practice for more than 25 years. She has been an intuitive since childhood. 
 
Susan’s blogosphere writing may be found at Seeds for Sanctuary, Ode Magazine and The Huffington Post, and Beliefnet. Her website is SusanCorso.com 
 
One of her favorite occupations is writing spiritual fiction. She is the author of The Healing Mysteries of Mex Stone under the pseudonym Shulamith Burton. The audiobook of the first in the series, Oklahoma! Hex, came out in September 2008.
 
Susan is the founder of Sanctuary and ten-year author/publisher of a free e-newsletter, Seeds. As a professor at the accredited College of Divine Metaphysics, she teaches and ordains ministers.
 
Susan has been published in magazines, online magazines and newsletters including Business Ethics, Beliefnet.com, Ode Magazine, Science of Mind, Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich, New York House, Q-Spirit, Self, and Winning Ways. She is the author of several tape series. Susan also writes for the theatre: The God Show, I Would Never, Fight or Flight, and PeaceWomen. 
 
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.

Today she functions as Chief Spiritual Officer for corporations. She lives in one-sixth of a Victorian house outside of Boston, with her beloved spouse, director/actress/teacher Sheriden Thomas, and the spirit of her familiar cat, Charles of the Ritz. 
 
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One Response to God’s Dictionary: Receive

  1. Noreen March 5, 2009 at 2:50 pm #

    Thanks, these posts are so interesting and enlightening