Have you ever witnessed this happen? Or, worse yet, been the passer-by? I’m guilty of it. The Christmas Season is synonymous with the virtue of giving, so it’s not uncommon to be solicited for donations heavily during this month. We’ve been working hard as a family this year to really bring that idea to the forefront. After all, Christmas is not our birthday.
Charitable giving is an area I know I can improve in and just when I think I’m doing okay and feeling pretty good about my efforts I read something that humbles me. Like the following quote from C.S. Lewis’s book “Mere Christianity”.
”I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. In other words, if our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements, etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charities expenditure excludes them.”
There’s something to think about before dropping the spare change I found on the floor of my car into the donation pail.