These are the communion mediatations from this past Sunday.
Find out how much God has given you and take from it what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
Augustine of Hippo
Do not turn your back on the needy, but share everything with your brother and call nothing your own. For if you have what is eternal in common, how much more should you have what is transient! the Didache, "Money in Christian History,"
The freedom to give is often vitiated by the moral disease of Afghanistanitus, the idea that the "real" opportunities for significant acts of giving are in faraway places or extreme situations.
Eugene Peterson in Traveling Light.
We can risk loving as passionately as God loves. For we know that the love God makes possible is no scarce resource that must be hoarded so that it may be distributed in dribs and drabs--a little here and a little there. Love is not a rare commodity; rather, the more we love with the intense particularity of God's love, the more we discover that we have the capacity to love.
Stanley Hauerwas
Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
George MacDonald in George MacDonald, An Anthology (130), edited by C. S.
Lewis
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