The Little Things

In my last blog I mentioned how the gifts from God are like those gifts ,when you are a kid, that are waiting to be opened for you on Christmas morning. These are gifts that are given to you by someone who loves you unconditionally.

Yesterday I opened three of those gifts. Although they may seem small but they were gifts from God. The first one, which may seem silly to some, had to do with my lawn mower. I go back to Houston from San Antonio every weekend to see my daughters and grand kids. When I go back I will do work around the house and mow the lawn. For the last month or so my mower would not work. I would have to borrow my neighbors. Yesterday when I went out to cut the grass I thought to myself what the heck, I’ll give my mower a shot and see if it will start. Before I pulled the cord I looked up to the sky and said, come on big guy start this thing for me please. First pull, nothing….Then the second pull it started right up and ran like a top.

The second gift came as a phone call. This was a client that I have been working on for weeks to be a sponsor of a big event that we are having. At first he was on the fence and wasn’t sure if he wanted to spend the money for the sponsorship. But yesterdays call changed that. He said that he was thinking over the weekend and something told him that this might be a great opportunity for him and his business to sponsor this event. So we are back negotiating again on an account that looked hopeless to some. But not to me because I had been asking for help, wisdom, guidance and perseverance.

The final gift came last night. On Saturday my daughter Rachel lost her cell phone. We looked high and low for it all over the house, in our cars, the yard everywhere and could not find it. I must of called it a thousand times if we would be able to hear it. No luck. She went to work and I continued to search the house but nothing. I know it worried her and frustrated her because her life is in her phone; Pictures, numbers etc. Then as I was driving home from Houston to San Antonio I was asking the man upstairs if he could direct Rachel to find her phone. Then about 30 minutes later I received a call from her cell phone. It was a male on the other end. He said that he had found the cell phone in his yard about a block from our house. Rachel must have dropped it when she was walking the dogs on Saturday night.

I know to some this may seem like a coincidence and seem very trivial but I really believe that these were gifts that were under my tree that I opened. I can’t wait to see what He has in store for me today.