What you will read now is part of a series of 100 spiritual challenges. Each blog can be viewed separately, but for maximum benefit a reader needs to start with the introductory blog of November 18, 2011, and then continue step by step. Day One begins on Sunday, November 20, 2011.    [ Click here for 100 STEPS ]

“Whoever is generous to the poor lends to the LORD,
and he will repay him for his deed.”

Dr. Ronda’s examples: It is my joy to give to the starving. Maybe because I am always so hungry from a diabetic condition, I hate to think of anyone hungry who could be helped by me or others I could inspire to do the same. I don’t feel especially called to feed strangers myself but, as in the teaching, I look for charities that I trust. Today, after making sure all my necessities that came with my move were taken care of I was able to send good sums to the Missionaries of Charity, pro-life, and an American priest with a parish of some 30,000 villagers of the area where his Church is a source of lunches for the kids of working mothers. It is a drug area where the priest is in danger of his life every day.

Your examples:

Prayer: Father God, thank you for the gift of abundance of resources I have always enjoyed in the United States and for work that I love. Thank you also for the gift of such joy in wisdom, mostly free to have, that I do not need as much of physical goods as others may really do.

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