Day 277 The Other's Keeper

We are our brother's keeper. Whatever we have beyond our own needs belongs to the poor.

"The pot of meal shall not waste, nor the cruze of oil be diminished" for all our giving away the last bit of substance we have.

At the same time we must often be settling down happily to the cornmeal cakes, the last bit of food in the house, before the miracle of the increase comes about. Any large family knows these things--somehow everything works out.

It works out naturally, and it works out religiously.
                                                                                                - Dorothy Day