A poor widow, who had only one silver coin left in her purse, decided to buy a loaf of bread and a slice of cheese. She hurried out from her shanty to the nearby store. But in her haste, she tripped and fell on the ground. The coin fell out from her hand and rolled somewhere down the alley. Realizing that she lost her last and only coin, she stood up to search for it. With anger in her heart, she defiantly looked at the sky and cursed God.
"God, you are very bad and cruel!" she cried out. "You know that it was my last coin, why did you allow it to be lost? Now, what will I do?"
Desperately, she tried her best to search for the lost coin. While looking left and right, she spotted a shining thing from a distance. "My silver coin!" she sighed to herself. The widow then rushed to it and reaching out her hand, she could not believe what she saw: with her silver coin lay a diamond ring."
In life, God allows us to lose in order to gain.
Take Care,
Joanna Maharis