When you do Good, Good comes back to you.

What do you call the moments where we keep on bumping on the same thing over and over again?

I keep searching for the right term. Serendipity? no nope. Deja Vu? Quite like it, but not.

Well anyway, if you happen to know such term, let me know.

It just happened to me.

These past days I kept on bumping into that message, When you do good, Good comes back to you.

In 2 days ago, my previous manager answered to my question: "whenever I am stuck, at wits end, I will pray to God. And I am a firm believer that we need to constantly do good, do charitable things, be good to everyone, spoil your parents, siblings, family ... and by that, we will have all the support needed in this life. Somehow, when I am on trouble, rescue or idea just came out of nowhere". My question to the person was: "how do you manage stress, how do you cope with overload?"

The answer gripped me. For me, you do good because you do good, no ulterior motive. If I do good hoping that I will receive something in return, my doing is not sincere. Just as God is doing good to us, whether we return it back at Him or not -- we need to be like that to others. 

Then yesterday, I came across that phrase in linkedin, an article about it - When you Do Good, Good comes Back To you. 

So I told myself: what does this mean? what does God wants to say to me?

Reading the article, and having thought about it, and asking God about it, here's what I concluded:

- That we need to do good for the sake of the other people we are helping, not for the sake of us (so that we got blessed, so that we will receive back good things in life). In Phoebe Buffay's term "unselfish good deeds"

- However, we should realise, God takes into account all our good deeds. He will reward us, in His own way and terms. I believe, that is why my ex-manager keep receiving back goodness in life.

- When we do good to others, do that and quickly forget it. Do not remember what we had give, do not count it. That is the art of giving.

- When we receive goodness, receive it, and remember the good-feeling we experience. Remember this when next time, others need the same goodness from us.

Hope you are blessed with this writing.

OXOX,

KataBeni