Today is Friday, April 16th, 2004; Karen's Korner #275

Not long ago, we had a 12-year-old guest stay at our house for several weeks. In that time, we did lots of normal things the Welds were doing.  One of the things in which I was involved was giving a program as part of one of our local church services.

 

This program I have given a couple of dozen times in various locations. It includes lots of boxes illustrating all the gifts God gives all of us as His Children. The gift-wrapped boxes are several sizes and represent all kinds of things like:  gentleness, kindness, power, joy, peace, patience, wisdom. And we can't talk much about God's gifts without including love. That was one of the gifts in the stash as part of my talk.

 

Included in the congregation that Sunday morning was my husband, Jim; our temporary houseguest and one of her friends. I wondered what she might have taken home from the presentation.

 

Yesterday when I was digging through an upstairs closet, I found the little package marked "love". It had been opened to learn what was inside. This peppy little pre-teen is now back to her home. Was it she who opened the gift? Was she looking to find out if there was anything inside?

 

Don't know for sure. All I know is that somebody did!

 

And I thought to myself, "Is that what all of us do?  Do we wonder what love looks like? Do we wonder where to find love?"

 

The Bible is such a gift! It is wrapped up for each one of us directly from God. The gift tag has our name on it. And like my box, it is marked "love". That book just oozes with love and it written just for me! Just for you! 

 

God is waiting for each one of us to eagerly rip off the wrapping, so we can look to find out what's inside. 
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