Giving What You Can

It is not the magnitude of what you give or what you do for others.

The smallest rainbow in the tiniest dewdrop on the web of the smallest spider catches the sunlight the same as the biggest rain storm making the greatest rainbow arching across the sky.

“Much food is in the fallow ground of the poor, and for lack of justice there is waste.” Proverbs 13:23, from the Vespers Scripture Reading today.

In the time of Jesus, Palestine was full of small plots of land, worked carefully and diligently by each small farmer and his family. These small farms filled the storehouses to feed the villagers through the winter.

Small resources and limited opportunities can result in wonderous things if carefully nurtured. This applies both to what we have in life (little money, limited time), and to the gifts given us by God (average talent, mediocre health). Do not waste what you have because you think it is too little.