Do you Really Begrudge me Two Carrot Sticks?

My wife was preparing some salad to go with her lunch.
As she was doing this, she asked me, if I could cut a rather large carrot, into carrot sticks. This I did. As I was doing this I quality inspected one carrot stick, which she might of missed?? 🙂
As I was finishing up, I said, “There’s a charge for this, you know?” Then I picked up one carrot stick, and placed it onto my plate. 🙂

“Hey, that’s mine!” My wife shrieked at me.

“Are you really going to begrudge me two carrot sticks, even after I’ve just cut them up for you?” Was my response.

We did end up smiling and laughing about it, in the end. 🙂

I was not leaving my wife short of carrot sticks, as it was a larger than usual carrot, which could have been equally shared between us. Even with the two that I’d taken, she still had about the same, or even a bit more, than she normally has. The six carrot sticks, were actually enough, which she did agree to, in the end.

It’s kind of left me thinking, “How do we react to Our Lord God, if He Asks us, for a small bit, of the Great Abundance, that He has given to us?”

Will we happily hand over two carrot sticks, knowing that we have enough? Or will we think, “But that’s All meant to be Mine!!” … ???

We have been given, such a great abundance, from Our Lord God.
If He asks for a small bit of our time or resources to be directed to …. , then how willing, are we to hand over …. back to Him, as He asks us to?

Are we able to recognise the Great Abundance, that we have been given, and as such, then be able to happily and joyfully, hand a small portion back to Him, as He directs us to?