The most primordial of social gestures: procreation, eating, giving, killing, speech, art, worship, cultivation of crops, animal husbandry, burial rites, and maybe trade or barter, and certainly theft. We seem wired to create hierarchies and networks or tribes. Giving fits into both the hierarchy (potlatch, partriarch, patron) and the lateral networks defined by the traverse of a the gift out, around and back from self, to family, to community. A community is the space marked out by a gift as it circulates. Grace defines all of Creation as a gift. The circulation of grace is love. Sacrifice, propitiation, that is love, I guess. Abraham with the knife. Tough love. Maybe God is an MBA. And St. Peter is his CPA.
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April 09, 2010
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