Abundance

"Charity is not a matter of degree. It is never nice. It wells up out of a sense of abundance, spilling indiscriminately outward. True, your abundance may complement someone else's lack, which you are moved to fill, but since your lacks are being similarly filled, perhaps by the same person, perhaps by another, reciprocity rather than domination frames the interchanges. . . .But absolutely everybody has abundances.

". . . .an abundance may not take a form you much like."

~~Nancy Mairs, Ordinary Time: Cycles in Marriage, Faith, and Renewal, p. 163.

Nancy Mairs has an interesting article on "Finding the Holy Here and Now."