Welcome to This is the Gospel, an LDS living podcast where we feature real stories from

real people who are practicing and living their faith every day.

I'm your host, Corinne Leigh.

So when you first saw that our theme for the week was give and take, did you think,

oh cool opposites!

Okay, nobody thought that.

But it totally helps my introduction if you pretend that you thought that, okay?

Because as we've produced this week's stories, I've come to a new understanding of this

time-worn phrase that I'm going to give you a little bit of history in the 18th century

referred to the practice of adding weights to a horse to even out an unfair race.

And today, it usually references compromise in a relationship or in a contract.

By the way, bucket list item to squeeze a reference to horse racing into the host segments

of this is the Gospel.

Check.

Okay, I digress.

In our discipleship practice, we talk a whole lot about the virtue of learning to give.

But I think it's fair to say we talk much less about the virtue of learning to take or

to receive.

And yet, as we're going to see from today's stories, these two words are so much more than

just opposites.

Giving and receiving are inextricably tied together in our spiritual efforts, and they're

inextricably tied to our growth as followers of Jesus Christ.

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