Have our cake and eat it

My daughter, when she was about 3, overheard a news article on the radio whilst we were changing for swimming (I didn’t have news on at home as I didn’t think it was good for young children to be overwhelmed by the horrors that are reported). Someone was being imprisoned for deliberately infecting someone else with AIDS. She knew what AIDS was – just cos we don’t do news doesn’t mean my kids are not informed of important issues – but in a more positive “what can we do about it” way. Her amazing question was about if they gave someone else AIDS did that mean they wouldn’t have it anymore. Mostly, when we give something away, like a football, we no longer have it.

One of the brilliant things about love is that the more you give away the more you get. In the giving it way, we get more. How fab is that? And the more others are given, the more likely they will give away more too – and so it goes on. And on.

Well if you are (what you love)
And you do (what you love)
I will always be the sun and moon to you
And if you share (with your heart)
Yeah, you give (with your heart)
What you share with the world is what it keeps of you
(Noah and The Whale)