Gratitude and Giving

We are wanderers in the earth, but
Only a few of us in each generation
Have discovered the life of charity, the
Living from day to day, receiving
Our gifts gratefully through grace,
And rendering them, multiplied
Through grace, to the giver. That
Is the meaning of your expansive, out-
Ward arching gesture of the arm in
The landing; the graceful rendering,
The gratitude and giving.

~ Robert Lax