{"id":580,"date":"2010-12-23T06:22:06","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T12:22:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/blog\/?p=580"},"modified":"2010-12-23T06:22:06","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T12:22:06","slug":"tis-the-season-of-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=580","title":{"rendered":"Tis the season of Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team &#8211; Tithing is a practical application of your Faith\/faith.  I know from personal experience it is the fastest, surest way to break the cycle of poverty or the mindset of lack.  It is based upon the premise that one must give without the expectation of receiving, <em>knowing<\/em> that you will receive 10x more in return.  You can give of your resources, time or talents.   Giving anonymously produces the greatest reward.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a poem from &#8220;The Prophet&#8221; by Kahlil Gibran;<\/p>\n<p><em>There are those who give little of the much which they have &#8211; and they give for their recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.<\/p>\n<p>And there are those who have little and give it all.<\/p>\n<p>These are the believers in life and the bounty of life; and their coffer is never empty.<\/p>\n<p>There are those who give with Joy, and that Joy is their reward.<\/p>\n<p>And there are those that give with pain, and that pain is their baptism.<\/p>\n<p>And there are those who give and know not pain in giving, nor do they seek Joy, nor give with mindfulness of virtue;<\/p>\n<p>They give as in yonder valley the myrtle breathes its fragrance into space.<\/p>\n<p>Through the hands of such as these God speaks, and from behind these eyes He smiles upon the earth.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Team &#8211; Tithing is a practical application of your Faith\/faith. I know from personal experience it is the fastest, surest way to break the cycle of poverty or the mindset of lack. It is based upon the premise &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/?p=580\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[29,119,32,27,152,117,118,43,30,125,42,28,36,126,31],"class_list":["post-580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-holiday-messages","tag-author","tag-bill-toth","tag-business-coach","tag-dr-bill-toth","tag-dr-billtoth1","tag-drbill-toth","tag-drbilltoth","tag-entrepreneur","tag-father","tag-julie-toth","tag-leadership-development","tag-morning-moments","tag-neurolinguistics","tag-nlp","tag-speaker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":581,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/580\/revisions\/581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.drbilltoth.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}