What Giving Taught Me About Trust

When my wife and I first started tithing, our budget was tight enough that it felt reckless. We did the math more than once, looking for a reason it wouldn't work.

What surprised us wasn't that the money magically appeared from nowhere. It was that giving first, before anything else, changed how we saw everything we had left. Less like something we were clinging to, more like something we'd already decided to hold loosely.

Giving was never really about the math. It was about learning, slowly and imperfectly, to trust that we're not the ones ultimately providing for ourselves.