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<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> in today's Gospel Jesus uses images drawn from the world of business to
instruct us in Christian living. </b></span>And he especially liked the dynamic of
investment, risk, and return as a model </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">of
the spiritual life. The reason is clear. God exists in gift form.
Therefore, if you want his life in you, you have to learn to give it
away.</span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"><span style="background-color:rgb(217,234,211)"><b>Think
of the coins we read about today as everything that we've received from
God</b></span>—<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>life, breath, being, powers, and so on.</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>Because they come from God,
they are meant to become gifts.</b></span> If you cling to them, in the manner of
the third servant, they don't grow; in
fact, they wither away.</span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal"> </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:18px;font-weight:400;line-height:inherit;text-decoration:inherit;font-family:georgia,"times new roman";font-style:normal">Notice
that <span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b>the first two servants doubled their wealth precisely in the
measure that they risked it. </b></span>This means that <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the one who truly has the
divine life knows how to make it a gift, and that in turn will make the
original gift increase</b></span>. <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>And the opposite </b></span>holds true:<span style="background-color:rgb(208,224,227)"><b> "From the one who
has not, even what he has will be taken away."</b></span> This means that <span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b>if you
try to cling to</b></span> <span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"><b>the divine life</b></span>,<span style="background-color:rgb(234,209,220)"><b> you will, in
short order, lose<span style="background-color:rgb(255,242,204)"> it.</span></b></span></span></b></b></b></b></div></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div id="DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br> <table style="border-top:1px solid #d3d4de">
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