Today marked the 1st day & beginning of BIRTHDAY MONTH!!!
(Ok, let's be real...since I was born on the 5th....birthday "month" only lasts 5 days..haha) & I've already been so blessed!
This morning, a friend blessed me with an hour long massage. Then shortly after coming home, Hayden brought a package in with the mail, from my sweet neighbor & friend. Inside, I found a pair of LuLaRoe leggings I've been wanting and have had my eye on for months - just wasn't at a place, financially, to indulge!
"Gifts" is one of my dominant love languages. I love both giving & receiving gifts. I used to feel weird and uncomfortable about the receiving part of that. As I've gotten older, I've realized that often times gifts can communicate things on a deeper level than materialism. Gifts, to me, are an outward expression of something happening inwardly. When someone gives me a gift, whether it was purchased, hand-made, or something so simple as a handwritten card/letter (I bet you can guess what my other love language is...ha!), it communicates to me that they were thinking about me SO much so that it provoked them to act on it. And THAT is what blesses me so much about a gift...it's not always about what the gift is, but why they gave it.
I use the word "blessed" so many times because it's the best word to describe all the feels these acts of generosity have given me. One of the definitions of blessed is: "endowed with divine favor". And favor can be defined as: "overgenerous preferential treatment". Is that not God or what? We all know what Psalm 37:4 says. "If we delight ourselves in the Lord, He will give us the desires and petitions of our heart." Because I'm delighting myself in Him, He has given me some of the desires and petitions of my heart. They're little things that I could live without, and honestly, they're things I never even asked for. (Sure I've thought at times, I'd love to receive those things, but I never personally asked Him for them.) Because He knows me, He knows the secret things in my heart. He knows the little, unspoken things, that even my husband may not know, that would brighten my day or bless me "just because". That overgenerous, preferential treatment. Hayden, Wesley & Addi receive favor from me because of their relation to me. Hayd is my hubs, W+A are my kids. (You see where I'm goin' here?) I am a child of God, therefore, because of my relationship with Him, He's gives divine, overgenerous preferential treatment, towards me. Simply because He loves me. He loves me SO much, that he put me on my friends' hearts. They had the opportunity to bless anyone...yet He had them bless me, because He knew I'd receive love by those generous gestures & He wanted to love on me.
If I've learned anything over the last year, it's to give honor to the Lord where it's due. To acknowledge and be sensitive to the little things that He's doing for me behind the scenes that I may not catch if I'm not looking for it.
I want to encourage you, also, to look for God in your life. Look for God when things are good. Look for God in the little things. In the mundane, simple things that you often may overlook and just chalk up to "luck" or "coincidence".
Get serious. Want Him more than anything else. You won't be disappointed!
(Ok, let's be real...since I was born on the 5th....birthday "month" only lasts 5 days..haha) & I've already been so blessed!
This morning, a friend blessed me with an hour long massage. Then shortly after coming home, Hayden brought a package in with the mail, from my sweet neighbor & friend. Inside, I found a pair of LuLaRoe leggings I've been wanting and have had my eye on for months - just wasn't at a place, financially, to indulge!
"Gifts" is one of my dominant love languages. I love both giving & receiving gifts. I used to feel weird and uncomfortable about the receiving part of that. As I've gotten older, I've realized that often times gifts can communicate things on a deeper level than materialism. Gifts, to me, are an outward expression of something happening inwardly. When someone gives me a gift, whether it was purchased, hand-made, or something so simple as a handwritten card/letter (I bet you can guess what my other love language is...ha!), it communicates to me that they were thinking about me SO much so that it provoked them to act on it. And THAT is what blesses me so much about a gift...it's not always about what the gift is, but why they gave it.
I use the word "blessed" so many times because it's the best word to describe all the feels these acts of generosity have given me. One of the definitions of blessed is: "endowed with divine favor". And favor can be defined as: "overgenerous preferential treatment". Is that not God or what? We all know what Psalm 37:4 says. "If we delight ourselves in the Lord, He will give us the desires and petitions of our heart." Because I'm delighting myself in Him, He has given me some of the desires and petitions of my heart. They're little things that I could live without, and honestly, they're things I never even asked for. (Sure I've thought at times, I'd love to receive those things, but I never personally asked Him for them.) Because He knows me, He knows the secret things in my heart. He knows the little, unspoken things, that even my husband may not know, that would brighten my day or bless me "just because". That overgenerous, preferential treatment. Hayden, Wesley & Addi receive favor from me because of their relation to me. Hayd is my hubs, W+A are my kids. (You see where I'm goin' here?) I am a child of God, therefore, because of my relationship with Him, He's gives divine, overgenerous preferential treatment, towards me. Simply because He loves me. He loves me SO much, that he put me on my friends' hearts. They had the opportunity to bless anyone...yet He had them bless me, because He knew I'd receive love by those generous gestures & He wanted to love on me.
If I've learned anything over the last year, it's to give honor to the Lord where it's due. To acknowledge and be sensitive to the little things that He's doing for me behind the scenes that I may not catch if I'm not looking for it.
I want to encourage you, also, to look for God in your life. Look for God when things are good. Look for God in the little things. In the mundane, simple things that you often may overlook and just chalk up to "luck" or "coincidence".
Jeremiah 29:13 MSG
"“When you come looking for me, you’ll find me.
“Yes, when you get serious about finding me and want it more than anything else, I’ll make sure you won’t be disappointed.”"
Get serious. Want Him more than anything else. You won't be disappointed!
Love y'all!
LMM
Love!!!! I can't wait to read more!!
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