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"We are like children who receive money from our
mother to buy her a a birthday present when she has a birthday. When the
children come with their gift, the mother does not say: 'You ought to be
ashamed of yourselves to come with a gift that I myself have paid for!' No, she
acts as though it were from them. That is what God does with us. Everything we
give Him we have received from Him. Nevertheless He acts as though everything
came from us.
Our thanksgiving consists in that we give
everything back to God...It is not because God is greedy and therefor wants
everything back, but rather so that we should have the joy of giving."
(Wilfrid Stinissen, O.C.D. from Bread
That Is Broken)
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