Gratitude

"It is hard for me to accept that the best I can do is probably not to give but to receive. By receiving in a true and open way, those who give to me can become aware of their own gifts. After all, we come to recognize our own gifts in the eyes of those who receive them gratefully, Gratitude thus becomes the central virtue of a missionary. And what else is the Eucharistic life than a life of gratitude?" -Gracias by Henry Nouwen