Super short, appropriate for the mindless rushing around I am doing these days. The Buddha states an ideal: producing a thought of loving kindness, developing it, cultivating it, and giving attention to it, that is a good monk, worthy of offerings.
The footnote also is of interest. Since monks receive alms, there are different ways that a monk accepts alms, based on his practice. An immoral monk, receives alms as a thief, a good monk with poor "reflection" receives them as a debt, a trainee as an inheritance, and a monk as the owner.
Does this apply to how I receive charity? Do I receive kindness rightly?