give

There is a practice of generosity at my new place of work. People will come in with food and leave it on the table, or add a little treasure from the back of a closet to the perpetual pile in the break room. People share fruit and pets and even, often, time.

It is a good practice. Ever since Jesus with the loaves and the fishes, and stretching back before him into antiquity, sharing has been a holy act, a communal act, an act of creation. With joy we assume an abundance that generates abundance; we bring the sacred into our every day. I am learning, I am practicing, and I am lucky.