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Tuesday, November 29
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Practicing selflessness demands that we recognize our responsibility to one another, to those who will come after us, and to creation itself. We give, knowing that we will get
nothing in return. It feels lonely, and perhaps it should. Jesus encouraged us to practice our good deeds in private, to avoid the temptation to do good solely to appear good.
That, too, is the act of selflessness: to avoid stepping on the moss not so that others may know that we obey the rules of the moss, but rather so that others may simply enjoy the moss itself.
How many of our own opportunities to act selflessly—to act at all—are gifted to us from the selflessness of another, perhaps a nameless, faceless stranger of the past? How much moss do we enjoy because others thought of us 70 years ago?
—Excerpted from “Minding the Moss: An Invitation to Selflessness” by Eric Clayton
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