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Misconceptions about Giving

“God loves a cheerful giver” (2 Corinthians 9:7). 

sixty-two-year-old man, suffering from a rare disease that makes a person want to eat money, recently walked into the emergency room of the Cholet General Hospital in western France. “French doctors were taken aback when they discovered the reason for the patient’s sore and swollen belly: He had swallowed around 350 coins: $650 worth.” The man had a history of psychiatric illness and his family warned physicians that he sometimes swallowed coins. A few had been taken from his stomach in past hospital visits. Nevertheless, doctors gazed amazed at what they saw on the x- ray. An enormous opaque mass, found to weigh twelve pounds, showed up in the patient’s stomach. It was so heavy that it forced the man’s stomach down between his hips. Five days after the man’s arrival, doctors removed his stomach and its contents. Sadly, the pitiful patient died with days. 1 A

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