Dante's Reflection

In the reading of Dante, you will find that you absorb much from him. Or you find that you have learned that you will be glad that you do not have to read it again for a grade. Dante is very poetic and most of it is hard to understand. You may feel that you need to go and get another degree to understand what he is saying. There is one thing that may catch your eye on how you can best understand on being charitable. Dante in his book he wrote, “As bees fly back and forth, now in the flowers busying themselves, and now intent to wend where all their toil is turned to sweetest stores, so did the host of Angels now descend amid the flowers of the countless leaves, now rise to where their love dwells without end.” (Dante, The Divine Comedy

Yet the neighbor comes over and tells her that she has come because she felt that she needed to come and wash her dishes. She lets her neighbor in, they get the dishes done in a short amount of time, they talk, the neighbor goes home, and the person realizes that the neighbor lifted her up when she felt that she did not need the lifting up. This woman was working part time and she has six children that she also raised with her husband and she was tired and did not realize what a boost it was when the neighbor came to take just a few minutes to help her with her dishes. Heavenly Father knew that she needed the help so he sent an angel neighbor to help with the

Her visiting teachers tell her that she needs to start walking so one of the visiting teacher starts to walk with her for a few months. She helps her sister by listening as they walk. Then later she finds that she has helped her from despair. She does not know what to do for her, because of her child leaves to go the school on Friday and does not come home until Sunday night. Not knowing where her daughter has been all weekend long. Angels work this way. Always lifting others and asking for nothing in return. We all can be angels in our own right. Many examples can be given to give charity to others. Just a smile is one way that you can give charity. You do not know what others are going through and that smile might be the ticket that they need at that time. When we are constantly working as Dante described as a worker bee it would be like Mother Teresa, giving her whole life to others. We may not be a Mother Teresa, yet we can be an angel to others. Always finding the nectar of the flowers that is given to us when we give charity to one