{"id":52,"date":"2026-03-10T13:11:50","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:11:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elizajamesdraft.novque.com\/saleem\/2026\/03\/10\/to-give-with-no-expectation\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T13:11:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:11:50","slug":"to-give-with-no-expectation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizajamesdraft.novque.com\/saleem\/2026\/03\/10\/to-give-with-no-expectation\/","title":{"rendered":"To Give with no expectation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us &#8220;do good&#8221;.\u00a0 We give of our time, our money, our expertise.<\/p>\n<p>We believe that we do this out of the goodness of our hearts, yet when the gift \/ the gesture is not acknowledged, we feel affronted and taken for granted and many even go as far as judging the other for their lack of gratitude.\u00a0 It&#8217;s quite something to be able to simply GIVE and expect nothing in return.\u00a0 To simply GIVE and feel the difference you&#8217;ve made in another&#8217;s life &#8211; the impact your word or your deed had. To GIVE not because you wish to feel good, but simply because you wish to share with another &#8211; be it your time, your money or your insights \/ expertise.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the Gift is in the Giving.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-783\" src=\"http:\/\/elizareconnection.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/0d6ee887-8dc0-435b-a9a6-d7ca266d0c09-300x243.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"243\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many of us \u201cdo good\u201d.\u00a0 We give of our time, our money, our expertise. We believe that we do this out of the goodness of our hearts, yet when the gift \/ the gesture is not acknowledged, we feel affronted and taken for granted and many even go as far as judging the other for\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizajamesdraft.novque.com\/saleem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizajamesdraft.novque.com\/saleem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizajamesdraft.novque.com\/saleem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizajamesdraft.novque.com\/saleem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizajamesdraft.novque.com\/saleem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elizajamesdraft.novque.com\/saleem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70,"href":"https:\/\/elizajamesdraft.novque.com\/saleem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/70"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizajamesdraft.novque.com\/saleem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizajamesdraft.novque.com\/saleem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizajamesdraft.novque.com\/saleem\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}