Giving to the Holy Spirit

I once visited a woman who was almost a hundred years old and was about to die. She expressed some sadness that she had not given enough as a Christian. We reflect on the Book of Acts and the common misunderstanding that the early church was somehow rigidly socialist. We consider the real gift we are supposed to give, the gift that does not involve personal assets. We also consider what it means to lose a loved one who is very elderly.