That's really what someone's doing when they're cooking for you: They're extending generosity.
When a person extends generosity, I see the soul.
Whether it's been a shoulder to lean on or a homemade meal, we all can remember a time someone extended generosity to us when we needed it the most.
I can't say it lessened the experience of her loss one little bit, but it did extend the generosity she had always shown.
"Alonzo asks that all those who offered to donate a kidney to him extend that generosity to others who are waiting for transplants," his agent, Jeffrey Wechsler, said in a statement.
If we can donate toys to the needy, why not extend that generosity to the dogs that are left alone on Christmas day?" Diamond adds.
At the same time, far too often our nation has failed to extend this generosity to other similarly situated groups, such as Haitians fleeing corrupt and dictatorial regimes and natural disasters, or Central Americans leaving countries wrecked by civil war, political persecution, and extreme violence.
Palin, despite the formidable demands on his time, still extends great generosity towards younger writers, to the point that he's very occasionally prepared to look at an unsolicited manuscript of a 300-page novel and, if he likes it enough, offer a written endorsement.
As the late John O'Donohue writes in his wonderful book, To Bless The Spaces Between Us, offering a blessing opens the heart and extends our generosity.
The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity has a budget of over $45 million, according to a report from the Center for Public Integrity, and its PACs and employees made $15.6 million in campaign contributions in 2008 (extending their generosity to McCain, Obama, and 87percentt of Congress).
