Giving Brings Wealth
Madina and her mother, despite their own urgent need, shared meager food, scant belongings, warmth, love, and light with Zulea and Zaina. Madina took the girls to school with her. They loved it. They went every day for a month.
No schoolgirl’s family had enough food. But their hearts found a way. They arranged to bring Zulea and Zaina to their homes for lunch, each one in turn. They had little to eat themselves. They ate less.
Zulea and Zaina wanted to live right, wanted so with all their hearts. But Josephine’s situation remained dire. Her heart felt empty, confused. She had seen the loving-kindness her impoverished, widowed neighbor had shown her daughters. She had seen the new light of hope flickering back at her from her daughters’ eyes.
Josephine went to her neighbor. Help me. Console my heart. Fear God in my daughters and advise me. Madina’s mother reassured her, with empathy, with truth.