Today is Easter - Happy Easter to everybody.
Easter is a good time to reflect on Sunday School stories.
One in particular, The Widow's Mite, tells of a widow who donates two small coins (a mite being the least valuable coin available at the time), which was everything she had to her name.
Another woman, who is very rich, gives only a small portion of their own wealth. And she goes around boasting about how generous she was to all her friends and family.
Who do you think is more generous, in the eyes of God, and have acquired more merits?
The traditional interpretation of the morality tale is that the value of a gift is not accounted by how much is given, but by how much is kept back.
And whether one makes a song and dance about the "act of generosity".
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