How often would you be busy doing something and even as you’re doing it, ask yourself the question…. “Why am I doing it?” The most often, obvious reason would be that you get paid to do it, like having gone to your nine to five day job, or you may have to do it, like when you’re peeling potatoes, as the local fish and chips is closed for the night, but how often have you done something for the sheer fun of doing it, NOT getting paid, not even the possibility of it… perhaps just helping someone out or washing the dishes before your wife gets up to have to do do so?

The sheer value of doing something for nothing, the same as ‘giving’, is such a powerful concept and achieve so much in rewarding you, that if more of us were to do it, the power balance of good will come close to wiping out what is evil in our world. That is because giving is a godly thing, which makes it a difficult subject if you’re atheistic, as God is good, foremost and firstly. How could you even understand the concept of good if God is absent from your thinking? In fact, think about it, the word good, contains the three crucial letters making up the word God….

How could you expect to do good unto others when you don’t too often, if ever, even experience it? That is where the concept of reaching out beyond your experience takes over. Doing good, even and perhaps especially to those who may never do you a favour, is what elevates it to such a high plane.