"A Two-Coin Offering"

As the office administrator, I'm usually the first one at the church during the week. On Monday, I found a note from the woman who does our janitorial service. It had $62 clipped to it and said, "I found this stuffed in the crack between the doors when I came in to clean this weekend."

Also on Monday morning, there was a bucket full of plums, pears, and apples at the front door. That's not common, but we have had a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables donated the last couple of weeks for the Community Dinners on Tuesday evenings. Someone probably just dropped by late Sunday or early Monday. But when I brought the bucket in later in the day, there was dollar and ten cents in dimes and nickels behind the bucket on the windowsill between our front doors. "That's odd," I thought. I put it in with the donations.

When I arrived on Thursday, I found two quarters on the sill between the doors.

God had tried on Monday to get my attention, but I was too busy to notice - wrapped up in my own worries and fears. But the symbolism this time was unmistakable.

  ¹ He looked up and saw rich people putting their gifts into the treasury; ² he also saw a poor widow put in two small copper coins. ³ He said, “Truly I tell you, this poor widow has put in more than all of them, ⁴ for all of them have contributed out of their abundance, but she out of her poverty has put in all she had to live on.” Luke 21:1-4

This wasn't loose change. This was an offering.

I'd been a professional fundraiser for over 40 years and raised millions of dollars, but I can't remember being this moved by a token of generosity. Someone cared enough about what we do and who we are that they gave us two small coins.

As we give thanks for all our blessings as a church family, let us continue to be worthy of all that we receive - great and small.

A Two-Coin Offering