AT TIMES GODS GIFTS ARE NOT BEST PACKED

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Dear Friends in TBP,

 

Love and Love alone.....

 

One of my friends sent it to me. Please go through, experience and enjoy!

 

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 room. 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? And stormed out of the house, 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 she

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 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? Trust HIM always. HE knows what is good for

you and may even ignore what you thought was good for you.

 

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 THINGS!

 

" The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or

even touched.. They must be felt with the heart.