I listened to a podcast last week, the whole of which was about the proverb “Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.” (Ecclesiastes 11:1). I admit that I haven’t given much thought to that particular proverb, so it was interesting. The main idea seemed to be that whatever you give or contribute with generosity will somehow return to you. The speaker applied this to his career as a teacher, that what he poured into the lives of his students would return dividends from some of them as they went on to do something with their lives and could look back to his teaching as a valuable contribution.
The next day, I went to a friend’s house and while I was there, her husband called me over to the piano and said, “Hey, have you ever heard of this song by the Imperials?” It was called “Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters.” I took note of this repetition; a phrase I hadn’t paid much attention to had wound its way into my life twice in a short time.
In the meantime, I’d recently had a couple dreams in which three people, siblings, all appeared at one time or another. Our family had known their family back in the day and they are all adults now. I don’t have much contact with them, but for various reasons, we have been praying for this family for some time. The dreams put those three very much on my mind, so I decided to act on it and sent each of them private messages on social media, hoping that at least one of them would get back to me. I mentioned this to my husband, and he commented, “Casting your bread upon the waters, eh?”
He had no idea that his mention of that proverb was the third time I’d heard it in just a few days and I hadn’t connected my sending of those messages with it either. Sometimes the Holy Spirit works that way. I was, indeed, casting my bread upon those waters with much prayer, asking the Lord for a return on it.
One of the three replied with an openness I hadn’t expected.
Cast your bread upon the waters, for you will find it after many days.
And that’s the Mondays Musings from Lynniebee.
I’ll probably delete this in the morning, but I expect I’ll find it again after many days.
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