I just found a Generous Article from a while back
David Jeanneret, a youth worker from Bristol, agrees. “What I found most
helpful was not necessarily succeeding in doing the list of actions, but the
encouragement to change your attitude and make up your own ways of living
generously,” he says.
David Jeanneret, 30, is married to Andrea, 29, a GP. They have
a one-year-old daughter and live in Bristol“OF THE original 50 suggested actions, there were only a few we could
easily do; so we made up our own. As much as the ideas are useful and
inspiring, they need to be easy, because life is busy. It’s easy to start with
great intentions and to tail off.“We struggled when our daughter Sophie came along. I think for us that’s why the first year felt like it was only half a success – but probably the point was to change your attitude, which has happened.
“Having a baby turns your thoughts to the future, and safeguarding the future of the planet has become part of that. I’m concerned about what I’m teaching Sophie by the way that I live; so she is inspiring me to live as well as I can.
“I do feel more fully human, in the sense that I think God created us to live at peace and in harmony with creation and the people that we’re with. Pushing for this general attitude to living is pushing us towards how I feel we were designed by God to live.
“One of my main concerns in joining Generous, though, was would God sustain us in our decisions to make the moral choice? But, in fact, I haven’t noticed that it costs us any more.”
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Filed under: General on June 25th, 2007
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