Somewhere along my path this year I understood the reasons behind giving for the first time. This isn’t the only reason, but for me it was a very powerful and eye opening reason. The lesson came from Neale Donald Walsh, in his last book of the Conversation With God series that he named Communion With God. I highly recommend the book by the way, even if you may not agree with all he says. In this book, Walsh says that since we are all one, when you give to someone you are, in essence, giving .