“I know this is going to come off sounding completely wrong and heartless but here goes...”
Yep. Also not at all in the spirit of what I have been taught is true Charity.
In each of us there is the image of God, we are all brothers. To feed the hungry is a basic Christian duty, as is visiting those in prison. (By the way, a more humbling task is hard to imagine.) Often Brother Harley, the struggle that I find the most difficult is with myself and my flawed nature. The humility I learn, when I learn through these corporal works of Charity are part of how I fight that fight and I believe part of how I am commanded by God to do so.
May your preparations for the coming of Our Lord during this very Holy Advent bear magnificent fruits and may you and yours enjoy a truly Blessed Christmas.
Everything you’ve stated is absolutely correct. We have to trust God that our bread cast upon the waters will bear fruit regardless of the circumstance. Still, whether we would bear more fruit by giving to charity A rather than charity B is the question I ponder. What exactly is being a wise stewart? Perhaps I overthink this. :O)