…the real meaning of the word charity is to care enough about other people to really want to help them. ~ Anonymous. Twenty Four Hours A Day: Meditations (p. 65). Hazelden Publishing. Kindle Edition.

Charity is not a monetary donation…
well, of course that helps, but charity?
The meaning began as  “Christian love
in its highest manifestation.”
Charity is closer to agape love
than to dropping in the offering plate.
Hands should be soiled, personal contact made,
hearts involved, kindness and understanding
towards others, our gift, a representation
of God’s love of man, man’s love of God,
or man’s love of his fellow-men.
God, grant that I come to care
about my fellows, to give not just value
but concern  and feeling, a sharing
of the pain as well as empathy
in the relief.