- Buy a birthday card, with an envelope, for a child.
- Add a gift of either cash or a gift certificate. The amount is up to you and is less important than the fact that you are being purposefully generous to a stranger.
- Add a note to the inside of the card referencing The Miranda gift. Here is an example:"This Miranda Gift has been given to you because you have value, just because you exist. It is given in memory of Miranda Evangelene Cole. Visit http://themirandagift.blogspot.com." *
- Seal the envelope and write "A gift for you and/or your child" on the front of it.
- Find a way to give this gift to a random stranger, someone you don't know who doesn't know you. Sneak it into the cart of a frazzled mother at the grocery store. Give it to a dad who looks completely lost trying to keep track of his toddler on the playground. Drop it off at a local shelter for abused women. Stop a pregnant woman at a maternity store and insist that you saw it fall out of her purse. Be creative...find a way. :) And try to be an anonymous as you possibly can.
Purposeful generosity, finding the value in others...just because they are human beings, too.
Participate
If you would like to join me in giving a Miranda Gift on February 5, here is how I celebrate her birthday:
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