Generosity which may be understood as a charitable deed is much deeper, multifaceted and reveals the true essence of one person as being able to satiate the soul’s thirst of another person. In this context, the Charlie says that ‘charity suffereth all things’ meaning essentially that love and the practice of love truly being shown by being kind to a family member or neighbor and giving to those in need will overcome these divisions.
Charity feeds the body, heals the heart, and touches the soul starvation. It provides food for the starving, homes for the naked and ignorant, and schools for the illiterates. It gives hope to the lonely and downtrodden, to the one who has lost their loved-ones. Living in a world full of injustice and suffering, without consideration of people’s difference, charity exists as a connection between abundance and scarcity, happiness and suffering and people and their call.
As for material giving, it is not only combs and handkerchiefs, but the fulfillment of the soul’s desire for affection and meaning. It breaks the walls of prejudice and brings concern towards other people, making us realize that each one of us is a thread in the carpet. Charity goes beyond the giver and recipient of charity because it stimulates a society to embrace the habit of giving.
The solutions to all the dilemmas of society – poverty, loneliness, conflict – are disclosed when we are charity. That is why when we focus on the health of others, we create the likes of hope or hopefulness in the world and love and compassion are what reigns supreme. Charity, indeed, suffereth all things.