That's love that lasts. Love never ends. And giving is part and parcel of loving. I don't know whether John Steinbeck would feel comfortable being quoted in church, but I am going to quote him anyway. No matter how hard they try, it piles up ahead of them.
Man owes something to man.
If he ignores the debt, it poisons him, and if he tries to make payments on the debt, it only increases. The quality of his gift is the measure of the man. Now note please. And Jesus of Nazareth bragged about the poor woman who had very little but gave it all. At this point, my four colleagues quite on me.