merefaith: discipleship in the ruins of empire

A brother said to Abba Poemen, "If I give my brother a little bread or something else, the demons tarnish these gifts saying it was only done to please men." The old man said to him, "Even if it is to please men, we must give the brother what he needs." He told him the following parable, "Two farmers lived in the same town; one of them sowed and reaped a small and poor crop, while the other, who did not even trouble to sow, reaped absolutely nothing. If a famine comes upon them, which of the two will find something to live on?" The brother replied, "The one who reaped the small poor crop." The old man said to him, "So it is for us; we sow a little poor grain, so that we will not die of hunger."

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