Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters: Counsel on Risk and Generosity
Ecclesiastes 11:1-6
1Send your bread upon the face of the waters, for in the abundance of the days you will find it.2Give a portion to seven and also to eight, for you do not know what distress may be upon the land.3If the clouds are full of rain upon the land, they empty it; and if a tree falls in the south or if in the north, in the place where the tree falls, there it will be.4One who keeps the spirit will not sow, and one who sees the clouds will not reap.5Just as you do not know the way of the spirit, like bones in the belly of the full one, so you do not know the work of God who makes all.6In the morning sow your seed, and in the evening do not let your hand rest, for you do not know where this will succeed, whether this or that, or whether both alike will be pleasant.