It’s easy to confuse the item we call a gift for the real gift. The gift is not the gift. You are the gift. The tangible gift item is nothing more than a legitimate excuse to make contact with another human being. Alone it means nothing. You are indispensable in the act of gift-giving. Without you, there is no gift, just the exchange of money or commodities.
You make the gift you give “sacred” and “sacred” gifts are the only gifts worth giving.
“Which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold sacred?”
“Which is more important, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?”
Matthew 23.17b, 19b
