When God measures a person, there is a tape put around the heart, not the head.”

When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”

• Sometimes, we women who do too much forget about giving—let alone giving cheerfully. We feel so stretched, so pulled. It seems that so many people want pieces of us that we feel we have nothing left to give. We want to take whatever we have left of ourselves and hug it to ourselves, barricading others away.

Stop, look, listen to yourself. We love to give. Doing it cheerfully may take off the pressure.