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.
It left me wondering: What would happen if all of us in our world who have "so much more than enough" (and we do, really, in so many ways!) could simply extend generosity with this kind of ease and joy, this quality of open surrender and trust?
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.
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.
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.
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).
The slightly weird alliance of racist English "patriots" and people who genuinely think Hitler is great were at the far-right demo to show – for the third time in just over a year – their furious opposition to the idea of extending any generosity to the shivering residents of the Calais Jungle refugee camp across the Channel.
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.
