The Power of Generosity: by what means to Transform Yourself and Your World according to Dave Toycen.

The Power of Generosity: by what means to Transform Yourself and Your World according to Dave Toycen, Toronto, Harper Collins, 2004 162 pp

Oh my. The power of the Word made muscle and fat The power of the written word. The power of faith in action. To live Christ's invitation to delight in God with your whole heart and your neighbour as yourself. To accept Gandhi's challenge to be the change you wish to behold in the world. Oh my.

In 200 pages Dave Toycen, President and CEO of World Vision Canada has given us a gift of his insights and experiences gained from working for 30 years around the world with family suffering in the most deplorable conditions. Time and again, in the mid,sl of dire sparingness and suffering, he encountered acts of generosity that l him to examine this virtue in greater depth

Here he contemplates at what generosity is, who has it, to what extent it is learned, the dynamics of generosity and justice, its power to change your life and the world. Ultimately, it is about relationships and for what reason we see ourselves and others in the world.

Toycen turn the thoughtss at rescuers during the Holocaust and the importance of their having witnessed at least the same parent model generous behaviour "beyond their local dispose or clan." He holds up Craig Kielburger who while in grade seven did not allow the complexities of the child labour situation to undermine, the two the responsibility and the capacity to rejoin There are stories of tribe practising generosity in small-town Ontario as well as in Rwanda. Mauritania, India. Afghanistan, the U heed is shown both for the portion of water offered in the refugee camp and the choice made according to Stephen Lewis to forsake comfortable retirement from life as a politician and diplomat to become the UN special ambassador for HIV/AIDS in Africa,

Within these pages are challenges to the World Bank and an guide onward how to become a more generous character Micro/Macro. Personal/Global Charity/Justice. The panhandler forward the corner/the starving on the far side of the world.

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