Reflections
“Out of her poverty, gave all she had to live on.”In one of the episodes of a noontime show in TV, the host, told the crowd that he received an anonymous gift. It was left on the doorstep of his house. What he did was to bring that gift to his program and opened it there for the whole world to see. Even I was surprised to see what the gift box contained: cold cash amounting to P750,000.00!Honestly, I found that inspi- ring. Someone gave a very huge amount and did not seek to be recognized at all. But putting that into the context of the gos- pel today, was that impressive to God as well? It depends. If we give out of our excess, what is of less value and what is use- less to us, this will not be impres- sive to God. The measure of real, impressive giving is the sacrifice that goes along with it. Give‘til it hurts, we are told, because when we’re hurting what we give truly becomes a gift. It is not the gift that counts, but the giver and the motivation for giving. As one saying goes, it does not mat- ter how much we give but how much of ourselves is given along with our gifts.
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