I “officially” started to Give Away A Dollar A Day in August of 2007. If you don’t already know about it, you can read the whole story here.
And, there’s another version that started about 10 years before that, which you can read about here.
However, I have not yet publicly told the story of the first time I truly experienced a miracle from giving…
It was in the fall of 1995. I had just been laid off from a company where I had worked for eight years. This was in complete surprise so I had no plans in place to update my resume and hit the trail to go out on the job hunt again. On top of that, I had been married for a little less than a year, with a brand new baby, and a new mortgage payment. This was not a good time to be laid off…
Within a few short weeks before this happened, my wife, Victoria, and I had started a course at Unity Church in Houston called the 4T Course, which is all about increasing prosperity through tithing your time, talent, and treasure (you don’t have to look hard to find the 4T’s in that title!)
Now I had not traditionally been an avid church goer, and so the whole idea of tithing on a regular basis, and in the amount of 10% of my income, was all new to me.
My fellow course students all knew when I got laid off - I had put out the word mostly for networking reasons. And although I don’t remember who said it, someone suggested that I increase my tithe to 10% of the amount that I desired to make in my NEXT position… You might want to read that again…
That sounded pretty magical to me, so I took up the suggestion. But there was this lingering thought in my mind that even though this was cool, it may not really work or pan out fully. Well, guess what, contacts and connections started pouring in, and I was once again gainfully employed within about two months. Here’s the incredible part, though - my new compensation was EXACTLY equal to what I had been tithing toward!
I was blown away! My wife was blown away! This was nothing short of a miracle from giving!!!
I kept up with the tithing, and eventually boosted it again to the next new level that I wanted to make. And… it happened AGAIN! This may be hard to believe, but it is very true, my total increase in income from before being laid off to three years later was a staggering 4 TIMES!!!
Tithing, giving, letting go, in faith, and in trust, works. Always.
Blessings to you in your newfound abundance,
Todd
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Write a Comment»While I’m aware of the importance of tithing, my question has always been, where does one GET the $200k needed to tithe to be making $2.0 million per year?
If someone genuinely wants to be there, but has no salary, limited savings, seems to be caught in a perennial prosperity blockage despite the promise of an influx, and is having trouble paying basic survival bills, the idea of giving away that much money is… beyond belief.
And most people, if they suddenly happened into $200k, would see that as the answer to their original problems rather than the tithe to move forward.
Of course, this probably explains why that lottery win remains elusive…
Hi Jeanne!
It’s good to hear from you - I hope you’re doing well. This is a great question. What comes to mind for me is one step at a time, one day at a time.
Someone who has very little now can start by giving away a dime a day. And if they keep that going, and with joy, and with love, and with just the intention of the give away, they will find that they are starting to create a flow, an “exchange”, with the Universe. And the Universe will flow back to them! (I think that, taken to an even deeper level, the Universe always has been flowing to them, it is they who needed to actively and intentionally participate in that flow by being on the side of giving as well as receiving).
This is all why I advocate http://GiveAwayADimeADay.com. Because it is not the amount that matters, it is the intention, and the loving act of giving away every day, that does.
I hope that this helps, and that you continue to be blessed, Jeanne, because you deserve it!!!
Todd