widow's mite

May: The Widow's Mite Club is a great response you've created to the challenge of low-dollar donors what to do with under $10 donors.

Among their number are the stories of the widow's mite and the rich young ruler, and Jesus' anti-family-values speech here in Luke 12.

"It's kind of like the widow's mite," said Faith McNulty, whose family is one of 10 now sleeping in area churches as part of First Place's Interfaith Shelter Program.

I, for one, have little interest in seeing my widow's mite earn a paltry 6 to 7 percent per annum, but if I knew I had a chance of going out in style, I'd fork over my life's savings to federally mandated hedge fund managers.

Using the proverbial "widow's mite", he managed to build all the facilities necessary for visiting clergy and pilgrims.

For you Biblical scholars, the parallel is the widow's mite, or in Doris's case, the widow who well might with pounds 50 up her kilt.

The widow's mite? The average teacher spent more than $400 of personal funds for such things as workbooks and pencils for poor children.

The move has been described as a brutal political move, to deprieve those in grief of receiving their widow's mite.

I do think that not having any kind of biblical education is unfortunate if children want to read English literature and understand the provenance of phrases like "through a glass darkly," "all flesh is as grass," "the race is not to the swift," "crying in the wilderness," "reaping the whirlwind," "amid the alien corn," Eyeless in Gaza," "Job's comforters," and "the widow's mite."

Crockett's $50 million in assets is a widow's mite compared to El Paso's $500 million or First Gibraltar's $11 billion.

According to the source, the politician, like a few other philanthropists visit the hospital almost annually to give their widow's mite in support of the poor.

Individuals and certain groups of people not only voted, they campaigned openly, enthusiastically and tirelessly, offering their widow's mite for the candidates whom they knew to be financially strapped but worthy to have seats in the once-august halls of the Senate.

Johnson Kwaku Adu, Member of Parliament for (MP) Ahafo Ano South West Constituency, has feted over 300 widows at Mankranso, the district capital, as his widow's mite towards their welfare.

Contrary to popular principles, Jesus praised the awe-inspiring value of the widow's mite, taught that a truly strong person can turn the other cheek, and warned his disciples to avoid being impressed by fancy religious garb and titles.

As he rightly points out, we render our greatest service when it costs the full price of facing up to challenges; service has reduced value if (unlike the widow's mite) it comes only from our surplus.