Someone asked for help. I barely have enough myself.

Giving from a short supply feels less like generosity than like risk. Solomon called it casting bread on water — which looks exactly like losing it, and isn't. The widow at Zarephath gave from her last handful and the barrel held. An open hand can receive; a closed one cannot.

The conversation

The child: “Daddy God, someone asked for help. I barely have enough myself.”

God: “That's when generosity matters most. Not when you have extra. When you don't.”

The child: “What did Solomon say?”

God: “'Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.'”

God: “It sounds like waste. It's planting in a field you can't see yet.”

The child: “But what if I give and nothing comes back?”

God: “'Good measure, pressed down, and running over.' I don't return in equal measure.”

God: “The widow of Zarephath had one handful of meal left. She gave. The barrel never ran dry.”

The child: “So it's not about having a lot. It's holding it loosely.”

God: “A closed fist can't receive. An open hand can do both.”

The child: “What if I give to the wrong person?”

God: “You don't control where the current takes it. That's My job. Yours is letting go.”

The child: “Then I'll give. Even when I'm scared I won't have enough.”

God: “You'll find it after many days.”

"Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days." Ecclesiastes 11:1, KJV