A lady took a break from her shopping at the mall and headed to get some coffee and a bucket of cookies. She sat down at a table and started reading her book. A man joins her at the table, and he too took out his newspaper and started reading. She took a sip of her coffee and then reached for one of the cookies. To her surprise, the man also reached for one cookie. A little while later, she helped herself to a second cookie. The man reached for another cookie too. When the same incident happened a third time, the woman became a little angry and wondered what would happen next as there was only one cookie left. The man picked up the cookie, broke it into half, gave her half, ate the other half and then left. By this time she was fuming with rage and ready to return home to tell her family what had happened to her. She picked up her bags of shopping and there she saw, her bucket of cookies lying inside one of them, untouched. -Fr. Stephen Boyle

A story so inspirational and touching about how much the spirit of giving means and how little we do it. We have so much to be thankful for and yet sometimes, all we can see in someone else is the worst in them. We never see that the mistake itself lies within one's self and not in the person we are all mad at. This story brings about new light to Matthew 7:3-4 " Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove that splinter from your eye,' while the wooden beam is in your eye?"