Of the five primary flows from the active human organism, none so often affects the human heart than the flow of money. On a daily basis, the expenditure, the acquisition, the retention, and the basic need for money commands motives and reactions that proceed from the heart and impact the lives of others.
A person's behavior with excess, with wealth, easily reveals the likelihood of sanctification, or lack thereof. An extremely generous person who also lives without behavioral vices is rare and saintly.
Philanthropy by those who are debauched and criminal can be essentially worthless. Sooner or later, the philantropist has to answer for all financial and sexual misconduct that may be covered up by ostentatious giving.
A person's behavior with scarcity, with poverty, reveals a saintly person's uncommon contentment, or too often the common envy and connivances of desperate people who covet, steal, conspire, rebel, rob, and kill to obtain other people's money or property.
The feeling of blush, of passion, of desire, of stress, or of pleasure is discernably observed when viewing others, or felt in our own heart when immersed with introspection; and all of this can happen from a relatively small sum of money.
Blush can be caused by the embarassment of insufficiency; passion by the imminence of gain or the proximity of other peoples' money; desire by the likelihood of gain in gambling or investments, or an increase in income or felony grand theft; stress by the hypertensive anticipation of loss; and pleasure in the secure flow of assets into one's protected estate.
Three variable flows of money proceed from us to others, other than the moral obligation of providing for immediate dependents, listed as follows: 1) Taxes 2) Donations 3) Gifts
God Loves a Cheerful Giver; many citizens are angry about government taxation, others believe that our taxes legitimately contribute to society's quality of life. Philanthropic donations other than taxes, in American society, are reported now at more than $300 billion per year.
American generosity from millions of saintly people will be recorded in the annals of human history as a primary attribute explaining, in part, the flow of power, the God-given spiritual survivability of the Western Civilization's Judeo-Christian USA.