I had this question recently from a young Catholic girl in my small group for teenagers, and I wanted to follow it up. What you said pretty much touches on what I told her: that when we see the elders casting their crowns before the Throne in Revelation, they are taking these crowns, which are an adornment--they are already in Heaven--, and placing them before the One to Whom they owe the adornment: it's sort of like when a child takes their parent-given allowance to buy a birthday gift for the parent. It's done out of love, and in the knowledge that we give out of what has already been given us. None of this stuff starts with us.

Thanks for all those thoughts--I'm off to have a peep at that article.

Stand Fast, Craigellachie!