WordNet
self-giving
adj. willing to deprive yourself [syn: self-denying, self-sacrificing]
Usage examples of "self-giving".
And out of that you also get the notion that Abelard offered as an explanation of the crucifixion: that the Son of God came down into this world to be crucified to awaken our hearts to compassion, and thus to turn our minds from the gross concerns of raw life in the world to the specifically human values of self-giving in shared suffering.
The proper use of those desires is a good and wondrous thing, allowing people to share in the self-giving love of God, a love that is so real that the product of that love must be named and nurtured.