{"id":567,"date":"2019-02-20T15:33:56","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T19:33:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/?p=567"},"modified":"2019-02-20T15:33:56","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T19:33:56","slug":"giving-to-be-fully-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/?p=567","title":{"rendered":"Giving To Be Fully Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Howard Thurman (1899-1981) was an African-American author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader known for his famous quote, \u201cFollow the grain in your own wood.\u201d When just a boy, Howard\u2019s parents dropped him off at the Florida East Coast Depot in Daytona, Florida, so he could attend high school in a less segregated school in Jacksonville. They paid for his ticket, but forgot to pay for his luggage. He sat in the depot in tears when a stranger approached, listened to his story, and paid his luggage bill for him. In his autobiography, Howard Thurman dedicated his book to the stranger who \u201crestored my broken dream.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"649\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/daytonDepot-1024x649.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-568\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/daytonDepot-1024x649.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/daytonDepot-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/daytonDepot-768x487.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/daytonDepot.jpg 1136w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thurman\u2019s contribution to civil rights was never as loud as Martin Luther King, Jr. Instead, he developed a philosophy of social change by changing one\u2019s individual, internal spirit. His story illustrates the goodness of giving.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDon&#8217;t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Giving to charity makes us feel alive. Even though a gift to a qualified charity may entitle us to a deduction against income taxes, taking the deduction is smart investing. Tax laws provide the opportunity to make the world a better place. When we think of others, we forget about ourselves. When we give to others, we come more fully alive.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Howard Thurman (1899-1981) was an African-American author, philosopher, theologian, educator and civil rights leader known for his famous quote, \u201cFollow the grain in your own wood.\u201d When just a boy, Howard\u2019s parents dropped him off at the Florida East Coast Depot in Daytona, Florida, so he could attend high school in a less segregated school [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[192,193,191],"class_list":["post-567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-giving","tag-follow-the-grain-in-your-own-wood","tag-goodness-of-giving","tag-howard-thurman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":571,"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567\/revisions\/571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stewardshipworks.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}