The Cup or the Cart?

Two very different ways to serve

They drive three hours to sit with a friend in crisis and doesn’t think twice.

She adds free sessions “just because” and holds space for a client’s breakdown at 11pm and calls it part of the work.

He hasn’t paid himself a real salary in two years, but he’ll Venmo a colleague who’s struggling before the coffee gets cold.

I know them.

I have been them.

And here’s what I want to say — not to scold, not to diagnose, but to witness:

That capacity? That devotion? That genuine concern for other people’s wellbeing?

It’s extraordinary.

And it got weaponized

Your giving is not the problem. The giving is, in many cases, the most alive part of you — the part that recognized a long time ago that your gifts were meant to move through you and into the world, not to sit still and accumulate.

The system didn’t create your generosity.

It found it, identified it as a liability to your sovereignty, and put it to work — for free.

But here’s what makes me excited to get out of bed every morning….

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