“Giving is a vital need for those in love.”
Your talents, your personality, your opportunities... are being wasted: you are not allowed to make full use of them. Meditate well these words of a spiritual writer: 'The incense offered to God is not wasted. Our Lord is more honoured by the immolation of your talents than by the vain use of them.' (The Way, 684)
Then opening their treasures, they offered him gifts, of gold, frankincense and myrrh. Let us pause here a while to understand this passage of the holy Gospel. How is it possible that we, who are nothing and worth nothing, can make an offering to God? We read in the Scriptures: “Every good endowment and every perfect gift is from above" [1]. Man does not even manage to discover fully …