Come and see what our God has done, what awesome miracles He performs for people! Psalm 66:5
“There was one of the saints named Philagrius who dwelt in the desert of Jerusalem and worked laboriously to earn his own bread. While he was standing in the market place to sell his manual work, someone dropped a purse with a thousand pieces of money. The old man, finding it, stayed where he was, saying, ‘Surely he who has lost it will come back.’ He did come back weeping. Taking him aside privately, the old man gave it to him. But the other gripped him, wanting to give him a share. The old man would not agree to this at all and the other began to cry out, ‘Come and see what the name of God has done.’ The old man fled secretly and left the city in order not to be honoured.”
Philagrius in The Sayings of the Desert Fathers: The Alphabetical Collection, trans. Benedicta Ward (Kalamazoo: Cisterian, 1975) 242.
Sometimes generosity comes into view as helping answer the prayers of a desperate person. And with the pandemic and all the stress in the world, there are a lot of weeping people. Most of the time, I am totally unaware of such people, plugging along at my own work.
Notice Philagrius is working laboriously. But he notices things, like this bag that is out of place. He collects it waiting for the opportunity to return it to the one who lost it. From there he fled secretly to avoid attention. God help us work laboriously, assist privately, and flee secretly.