To give... Or not to give...

I took this picture with my cell phone. At night.
The "sunlight" is really the light from a streetlight.
I thought it was neat & decided to share it with you.
Did I already show you this picture?
eh... I don't care. Here it is again.

I posted my first "guest blog" entry on Pastor Chuck's blog.
It was about how giving should cost us something.

It reminds me how cavalier we can be with our charity. We think we're doing something by tossing twenty bucks here, fifty bucks there. But in the big picture, we're only doing it as long as it doesn't threaten our own personal comfort. Yeah, we could have gone out to eat with that fifty bucks, but in the grand scheme, we're gonna be, shall we say, " a'ight ".

Compare that to the guy who hands over half his sandwich to the guy next to them because that guy has nothing at all to eat. That sandwich was this guy's only meal of the day... he gave half of it away.
Yeah... I feel like a worm too.

Maybe the picture means more to me now. What we think is going on is really just an illusion. It's not daytime, it's not the sun. It's nighttime and that's a streetlight.
Am I giving or am I merely tossing away scraps.

Here's a nice tough question...
If I go to an outreach once every couple of months and help feed the less fortunate, am I helping others or am I just helping myself feel better?