God’s Extravagance

It started with a dream. “Let’s give away 50 bags of groceries and 50 turkeys for Thanksgiving in a low income neighborhood,” one of my friends suggested. I laughed. It was a sarcastic laugh. Sort of like Sarah’s laugh when God announced she would give birth past her child bearing age. But I dared to dream. I dared to believed. I dared to trust. And as we stepped out in...

Significant

She was poor, destitute, widowed. She didn’t have much in comparison to the others who were given. But nonetheless she sacrificed and gave in her poverty. Perhaps, if she had compared her small gift to others who were given, she would have been too embarrassed to give her frugal offering. Perhaps if she had considered her own need, she would have thought it wise to hold on to her offering....