Certainly, I know a parent can love a child, and emotionally commit to feeling that everything they have is also their son's. And within this relationship, there is total freedom, and nothing is withheld.

The son gets a few broken bones at a very young age because of doing things he wasn't told not to do, but the parent has the best medical insurance and his doctor freely prescribes pain medication (which the son later becomes addicted to).

Okay, I made the child a son ...how about we give him a name now.  Let's call him ...Rich.

As Rich goes out into the world, he assumes the world is just one big 'giving' place.  And because he is a bit impulsive and forgetful, Rich doesn't bring any money with him. He reasons that because there are hundreds of shoes in the store, it would not matter if he takes his favorite kind of tennis shoes ...so he does.  His other tennis shoes were getting a bit dirty ...because he's been wearing them for a couple weeks now.

It so happens that one of his friends is with him when he steals the shoes, and the friend is surprised how slick Rich is and how he gets away with it.

Rich's friend tells the story, and the story gets around ...though it doesn't get around to any of the parents. Rich's friends are not rich (and some are rather poor), but the poor friends are easily convinced by Rich that the man who owns the store is also rich, so it doesn't matter.

The following week, thirty kids (all Rich's age, in their late teens) participate in a flash mob-style mass looting of the shoe store ...each getting away with as many pairs of shoes as they can carry, and going in different directions after departing the store. The police don't get there nearly in time to catch anyone.

The only two kids caught are caught by their alert parents, as the parents know they couldn't afford the shoes.  Those sons have to return the shoes, and they face pending consequences from the justice system.

So much for guilt, or lack of it.

But, let's just reason it out.  What is better ...having everything freely, or having limitations??

Well, let's ask Rich's parents.

This time Rich's dad is the one who provides insight:

"My own dad was born with money, and we were by far the richest family in school, but many of my classmates had more, and nicer things than I had.  It was well-known that we were filthy rich ...and it would bother me when my classmates would ask me why my parents didn't buy me nicer things. But, what really hurt was when they would boldly ask, as if they already knew the answer, whether my parents actually loved me.  And at that point, I knew that if I ever had a family, my wife and children would know I loved them."

What do we think about this??  Certainly people in some of the poorest areas of the world know they are loved.  So, a person can feel blessed in many areas other than monetary wealth. And a person can be unappreciative of what they do have. I imagine that God and the angels could provide much insight and would have something to say on this subject.