Heart Gifts

This being the month of my birth, and the completion of 70 trips around the sun, I felt I should do something in gratitude.   My friend Jayna suggested that we all take our birth month, and give a Heart-Gift each day.   I started on June 1st, and am consciously doing a heart-gift, then writing it down in a little journal I keep.   The idea isn't to keep tabs on what I do, but rather to keep a reminder of what I want to give.   My idea of a heart-gift is that it isn't material, and each gift remains a secret known only to me.   It can be as simple as a kindness to someone who needs it, or leaving an extra big tip at a restaurant, or silently sending a prayer when aware of someone who is suffering.   I think it needs to be a conscious and specific gift, not just trying to be "good" for part of the day.   So far (it's now just 6 days into June) it's been wonderful, and I can imagine that by the end of June I may want to make it a constant practice.