When I give something I do not possess, I give a false and dangerous gift, a gift that looks like love but is, in reality, lovelessa gift given more from my need to prove myself than from the others need to be cared for. That kind of giving is not only loveless but faithless, based on the arrogant and mistaken notion that God has no way of channeling love to the other except through me. Yes, we are created in and for community, to be there, in love, for one another. But community cuts both ways: when we reach the limits of our own capacity to love, community means trusting that someone else will be available to the person in need.
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