In her work “The Flowing Light of the Godhead,” Mechthild of Magdeburg, a medieval mystic, writes: “Lord, you’re full, and you fill us with your kindness, too. You’re great, and we’re small. Tell us, how are we to become like you then? Lord, I see you’ve given us many blessings and that we must pass these on to others. Although we have a small vessel, you still fill it up. A person can pour the contents of a full, small container into an empty, larger container over and over until the large container becomes full from the contents of the small container. The large container is the satisfaction God gets from our kind actions. Sadly, we are so tiny that a single petite word from God or the Bible fills us so completely that we can’t take it in for the moment anymore. We should then pour the gift back again into the large container that is God. How can we do this? Through our holy desires, we must pour our small container of God’s love over those we know so that they may work on becoming perfect in God’s kindness and remain that way. Our Lord God wants us to love Him just as He has loved us and loves us still and always will. If we want to be like Him, we will love just as He does.”