Philanthropy.

"The heat, at its height. Sweaty and thirsty, the three of us arrive at a hermitage. There

is an Elder living there with three subordinates. He received us with great joy. He understood our hardship from the uphill journey and made us eat a little.

After a while, he tells his subordinate

to cut the watermelon and bring it on three

plates. Three plates arrive, filled to the brim.

It was something unexpected for us. True joy.

We all ate and each of us left something on our plate "for shame".  "Then we realized

that that watermelon was the only one

they had. And they offered it without eating anything

themselves"

Philanthropy.

 Bibliography Archimandrite Ioannis Kostof. The melody of happiness. Publications Holy Monastery of Saint John of Damascus