All the Best Gifts are Re-Gifts
There's an icon of Mary Magdalene at the local Byzantine Catholic church and in it she is depicted as holding a vial of oil, representing the scene in Luke's gospel where tradition holds that the sinful woman annointing Christ with oil and wiping his feet with her hair was Mary Magdalene.
And it struck me for the first time that she was not so much showing us her gift to Christ, but was showing us Christ's gift to her - her repentance and love for Him was in some way a gift to her, because all of our gifts are actually re-gifts and apart from Christ we can do nothing.
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