A married lady was expecting a
birthday gift from her husband. For many months she had admired a beautiful
diamond ring in a showroom, and knowing her husband could afford it, she told
him that was all she wanted.
As her birthday approached, this
lady awaited signs that her husband had purchased the diamond ring. Finally, on
the morning of her birthday, her husband called her into his study.
Her husband told her how proud he
was to have such a good wife, and told her how much he loved her. He handed her
a beautiful wrapped gift box.
Curious, the wife opened the box and
found a lovely, leather-bound Bible, with the wife's name embossed in gold.
Angrily, she raised her voice to her husband and said, 'With all your money you
give me a Bible?'
She stormed out of the house,
permanently leaving her husband. Many
years passed and the lady was very successful in business. She managed to
settle for a more beautiful house and a wonderful family, but realized her
ex-husband was very old, and thought perhaps her
Should go to visit him. She had not
seen him for many years. But before she could make arrangements, she received a
telegram telling her that her ex-husband had passed away, and willed all of his
possessions to her. She needed to come back immediately and take care of
things.
When she arrived at her ex-husband's
house, sudden sadness and regret filled her heart. She began to search through
her ex-husband's important papers and saw the still new Bible, just as she had left
it years before.
With tears, she opened the Bible and
began to turn the pages. Her ex-husband had carefully underlined a verse, Matt
7:11, 'And if you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children,
how much more shall your Heavenly Father, who is in heaven, give what is good
to those who ask Him?' As she read those words, a tiny package dropped from the
back of the Bible. It had a diamond ring, with her name engraved on it --
the same diamond ring which she saw
at the showroom. On the tag was the date of her birth, and the words. 'LUV U
ALWAYS'. How many times do we miss God's blessings, because they are not
packaged as we expected?
I trust you enjoyed this. Pass it on to
others. Do not spoil what you have, by desiring what you have not; but remember
that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
IF YOUR GIFT IS NOT PACKAGED THE WAY
YOU WANT IT, IT'S BECAUSE IT IS BETTER PACKAGED THE WAY IT IS. ALWAYS
APPRECIATE LITTLE THINGS; THEY USUALLY LEAD YOU TO BIGGER and BETTER THINGS.
'The best and most beautiful things
in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.'
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