I'm thinking of the miracle of feeding the
5000 in relation to giving charity
.
I don’t know what proportion of the food provided was shared
out of back-packs or miraculously made, but breaking the food up into small
pieces made any additional giving equal, anonymous, and accessible. Giving fragments
of food is nothing to boast about. There was no large lump sum that needed
explaining. Everyone could give shreds.
If all charity was given in 20 dollar bills, there would be
no need to have plaques on the wall naming donors. Giving could be perceived as
something that everybody does rather than something that the wealthy do. Then we
could be blessed together by experiencing giving: each person feeling the abundance
rather than the scarcity of his or her own situation. And we would be one step closer to bringing to earth the generosity of heaven.
So very true.
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