Todavía queda

A mother opened her refrigerator one night to find almost nothing. Her children were asleep, and she searched the kitchen—a drawer, a cabinet, a few cans—until she found a small amount of rice. She put it on to boil, wondering what she would feed them tomorrow. That night they ate. The next day, unexpected help arrived. It was not a fortune, but it was enough. Years later, sitting in a living room with her grown children, one of them said, “Mom, we never knew we were going through so much need.” She replied, “Because you saw what was on the table. I, meanwhile, saw the miracles God performed to put it there.”

That story opens this episode of La Dosis Diaria Roka, and it sets the central question: What do you see when you look at what you have left? The host, William Arana, argues that the answer determines whether you live in fear or in faith.

The jar that never runs out

Arana draws a direct line from that mother’s experience to a biblical story in 1 Kings 17. The prophet Elijah tells a widow who is preparing what she believes will be her last meal—a final handful of flour and a few drops of oil—that God has a different message: “The jar of flour will not be used up and the jug of oil will not run dry until the day the Lord sends rain on the land.” The widow saw a last supper. God saw the beginning of a miracle.